Lighthouse The (SALT MODERN FICTION) (Paperback)

from Mercury57

Alison Moore's debut novel The Lighthouse is a quietly deceptive tale; one of those books that so gently wraps itself around you that you just have to keep reading even when you're not really sure where it's going. This is not a novel that bursts forth with a big bang opening or one that contains...

from ctpress

Futh is a strange character, self-effacing, a social misfit - recently separated from his wife - we follow him on a week long hiking trip in Germany, where the main plot really seem to be his constant memories of his unpleasant father, the mother that vanished when he was a kid, the unsuccesful m...

from tangledthread

[The Lighthouse] Review: Futh, a recently divorced middle aged man sets out on a walking holiday along the Rhine in Germany. When the book opens he is aboard a ferry crossing the North Sea while reflecting on a similar previous trip. That trip was with his father, who was making a pilgrimage afte...

from ShannonRose4

Futh returns to Germany to recover from the devastation of his failed marriage. Recounting his memories of an earlier trip to Germany & haunted by happier times with Angela, Futh travels through Germany on foot. On his journey, a brief encounter with Ester; the keeper of the Hotel Hellhaus, has u...

from SandDune

The first book that I have read from the 2012 Booker shortlist, and one that has certain similarities with the long-listed The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, both books being concerned with the reminiscences of a middle-aged man looking back on their life whilst walking, but while I found Har...