by Alison Moore
Oh dear. This little Booker Prize shortlisted novel really is quite disappointing. Let's start with the positives though (and it's a biggy). The writing is brilliant. Short, sharp and clear. Moore really is accomplished. Unfortunately, with this particular story, the style leaves the reader sl...
Horrid, horrid, horrid. I could not stand this. I gave it 62 pages, which is more than generous for a book I'm hating as much as I hated this one. It's a puzzlement to me how this got longlisted for the Booker prize. Some people's tastes are unfathomable.
3½ starsA nice, little read and thoroughly depressing... But it speaks to Moore's skill that she manages to convey such emotion in a very short book that in reality has very little storyline.The parallel storylines of Futh and Ester are well interwoven while still being two separate tales. I actuall...
This is the other Booker-nominated book about a man who embarks on a trek, and ruminates about his life and his disappointments. The similarities with The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry stop there though. Here, the story is about the lighthouse, and those it warns. Or beckons. The tale is pre...
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