Review- The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
What can one say about Futh other than the fact that he is a highly unlikable character. Of course, it is ok to not like a character; this doesn’t mean the whole novel is going to fall apart at the wayside. He is tedious, ambivalent, whny, wet and in simple terms- annoying. The novel starts with Futh wafting away from the currents of his life on a Ferry bound for Germany
The novel is plagued by Futh’s memories of his mother who left him & his father when he was a boy and his constant search for a surrogate mother. His wife, who not surprisingly enough shares his mother’s name, has to keep reminding him that she is not his mother. It’s not difficult to see why the marriage breaks up, but it’s also hard to understand why his wife married him when it’s obvious that she’s always annoyed by him and has no real love for him.
Futh is submissive and a fantasist who wishes everything to be done for him, even whilst out walking, he desires strangers to take him in; to feed him and give him water or once more, ‘mother’ him. He is essentially an underdeveloped human being. In fact, this short novel works as a psychological character study on a man whose mother’s absence except for a small keepsake- the lighthouse perfume he carts around. He would make for a psychologist’s dream patient.
The characters in this novel, including a dysfunctional couple; Esther and her husband who own a hotel in Germany Moore
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