A review by rmarcin
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore

2.0

I guess I am not one for books which are shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. The best thing about this book to me was that it was short, and could be read in just a couple of hours. Futh is a man who is recently separated from his wife, never gotten over the trauma of his mother leaving when he was a child, has an abusive father, and is just wandering through life. Throughout the book, you find that Futh's wife, Angela, had been having an affair with Futh's childhood friend, Kenny, for a long time. Also, Futh's father, had an affair with Kenny's mother, Gloria, their next door neighbor.
When Futh embarks on a vacation to hike in Germany, he meets Ester, a hotel owner. Ester is promiscuous, sleeping with various hotel guests. Ester's husband, Bernard, is a volatile man, who beats Ester, and the guests. Ester is also covetous of Futh's silver lighthouse, which held Futh's mother's perfume. Ester steals the lighthouse, Futh tries to steal it back. Futh never slept with Ester, but is caught in her room by Bernard, and Futh is beaten badly - perhaps to death, which is alluded to in the final chapter, when he doesn't show up on the ferry to return home.
This is just not the kind of book for me.
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