The Lighthouse
- 4 Oct 2012
- 9780857869968
- £7.99
- 192 pp
In a few words
‘A haunting and accomplished novel’ Katy Guest, Independent on Sunday
Melancholy and haunting. The sense of loneliness and discomfort and rejection is compelling, the low-key prose carefully handled. It's a serious novel with a distinctive and unsettling atmosphere
Margaret Drabble
It is this accumulation of the quotidian, in prose as tight as Magnus Mills's, which lends Moore's book its standout nature, and brings the novel to its ambiguous, thrilling end
Philip Womack
The TelegraphMore about
the book
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012
On the outer deck of a North Sea ferry stands Futh, a middle-aged and newly separated man, on his way to Germany for a restorative walking holiday.
After an inexplicably hostile encounter with a hotel landlord, Futh sets out along the Rhine. As he contemplates an earlier trip to Germany and the things he has done in his life, he does not foresee the potentially devastating consequences of things not done.
The Lighthouse, Alison Moore’s first novel, tells the tense, gripping story of a man trying to find himself, but becoming lost.
It all stokes a sense of ominousness that makes the denouement not a bit less shocking
Hephzibah Anderson
Daily MailA haunting and accomplished novel
Katy Guest
Independent on Sunday
