![]() It feels like something peeled and bleeding. Time and again Futh ends up in the middle of others’ problems but is too inept to realise it and suffers as a consequence. He is constantly outrun and unbalanced by the actions of other people: the aggressive cuckolded hotel-manager, whose wife desires his mother’s silver lighthouse perfume case, his father’s women, and his bored wife who echoes the mother who left him as a child. Futh’s very name is an awkward monosyllabic cotton-woollish and wholly unmemorable sound. ![]() The middle-aged and recently separated Futh is going on a walking-tour in Germany to clear his head before returning to a single life in a flat full of boxes his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Angela, had to pack for this stunningly ineffectual man. In The Lighthouse Alison Moore has created an unsettling, seemingly becalmed but oddly sensual, and entirely excellent novel. ![]() Part of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Longlist Series. ![]()
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