![]() ![]() Kenny eventually leaves, when his father moves out after Gloria (Kenny’s mother, who does have a first name) is caught in an affair. He is vaguely friendly with Kenny, who lives next door, but Kenny is not very keen on Futh. ![]() Neither Futh nor his father ever hear from her again, though, on a visit to New York, Futh thinks he sees her on several occasions. As we are repeatedly reminded, Futh’s mother, Angela, finds Futh’s father very boring and eventually leaves him to return home to New York. Futh and his father had once visited Germany, when Futh was twelve, but it had not been a successful holiday. ![]() His grandfather had emigrated from Germany (we only learn why towards the end of the book). In some respects, the novel is reminiscent of some of Hilary Mantel‘s early fiction, novels that seem to come out of the 1950s and tell of lonely, lower middle class people leading lives of quiet desperation, to quote Thoreau, via Pink Floyd.įuth is the hero of this novel. It is, as she says, a novel about loss but also a novel about failure. It is a surprise because it is published by a small, independent publisher but also because it is Moore’s first novel, though she has written several short stories. The Lighthouse surprised everyone, the author included, by being nominated to the 2012 Man Booker Prize short list. Home » England » Alison Moore » The Lighthouse Alison Moore: The Lighthouse ![]()
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