PRAISE FOR ALISON MOORE
“As the parallel stories unpack these two [protagonists']
respective pasts, talismans of memory seem to uncannily connect
them: Venus flytraps, the smell of a certain perfume, replica
lighthouses that both keep as protective charms. Ms. Moore has
written a short, bleak, atmospheric book full of such strange
symbols that, in the murk of Futh’s confusion, suddenly come aglow
with meaning.”—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
“Starkly written and suspenseful, this novel ... is a slow burn of
jealousy, anger, and anxiety that reads like a drama peeked at
through a crack in a door. Moore’s prose is sharp and often sparse,
while her characters are loathsome and sympathetic by turns.
Complex and thrilling, this meditation on the past is a gripping
story of betrayal and its lingering effects.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Moore’s deceptively simple style perfectly suits this tale of
memory, sadness, and self-doubt ... [A] satisfying, mysterious
novel.”—Publishers Weekly
“The Lighthouse is a powerfully poetic and moving study of loss,
grief, and abandonment ...”—New York Journal of Books
“Melancholy and haunting.”—Margaret Drabble
“Disquieting, deceptive, crafted with a sly and measured expertise,
Alison Moore’s story could certainly deliver a masterclass in
slow-burn storytelling.”—The Independent
“The Lighthouse is a page turner… we’re immersed in a chilly,
heart-wrenching story that seems to say that, for all our
obsessions with old wounds and childhood hurts, the thing that
damages us most of all is the thing of which we are unaware.”—The
Guardian
“Moore’s writing has a superb sense of the weight of memory.”—Kate
Saunders, The Times
“A haunting and accomplished novel.”—The Independent on Sunday
(UK)
“It is this accumulation of the quotidian, in prose as tight as
Magnus Mills’s, which lends Moore’s book its standout nature, and
brings the novel to its ambiguous, thrilling end.”—The Telegraph
(UK)
“Though sparely told, the novel’s simple-seeming narrative has the
density of far longer work. People and places are intricately
evoked with a forensic feel for mood.”—The Daily Mail (UK)
“Moore’s writing has a superb sense of the weight of memory.”—The
Times (UK)
“The Lighthouse is a spare, slim novel that explores grief and
loss, the patterns in the way we are hurt and hurt others, and the
childlike helplessness we feel as we suffer rejection and
abandonment. It explores the central question about leaving and
being left: even when it feels inevitable, why does it hurt so
much, and why is this particular kind of numbness so repellent to
others? The brutal ending continues to shock after several
re-readings.”—The Guardian (UK)
“The Lighthouse looks simple but isn't, refusing to unscramble what
seems a bleak moral about the hazards of reproduction, in the
widest sense. Small wonder that it stood up to the crash-testing of
a prize jury's reading and rereading. One of the year's 12 best
novels? I can believe it.”—The Observer (UK)
Alison Moore’s first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards (New Writer of the Year), winning the McKitterick Prize. Both The Lighthouse and her second novel, He Wants, were Observer Books of the Year. A third novel, Death and the Seaside, is forthcoming in the US from Biblioasis. Her shorter fiction has been included in Best British Short Stories and Best British Horror anthologies and is collected in The Pre-War House and Other Stories. Born in Manchester in 1971, Alison lives in a village on the Leicestershire-Nottinghamshire border with her husband and son.
PRAISE FOR ALISON MOORE
“As the parallel stories unpack these two [protagonists']
respective pasts, talismans of memory seem to uncannily connect
them: Venus flytraps, the smell of a certain perfume, replica
lighthouses that both keep as protective charms. Ms. Moore has
written a short, bleak, atmospheric book full of such strange
symbols that, in the murk of Futh’s confusion, suddenly come aglow
with meaning.”—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
“Starkly written and suspenseful, this novel ... is a slow burn of
jealousy, anger, and anxiety that reads like a drama peeked at
through a crack in a door. Moore’s prose is sharp and often sparse,
while her characters are loathsome and sympathetic by turns.
Complex and thrilling, this meditation on the past is a gripping
story of betrayal and its lingering effects.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Moore’s deceptively simple style perfectly suits this tale of
memory, sadness, and self-doubt ... [A] satisfying, mysterious
novel.”—Publishers Weekly
“The Lighthouse is a powerfully poetic and moving study of loss,
grief, and abandonment ...”—New York Journal of Books
“Melancholy and haunting.”—Margaret Drabble
“Disquieting, deceptive, crafted with a sly and measured expertise,
Alison Moore’s story could certainly deliver a masterclass in
slow-burn storytelling.”—The Independent
“The Lighthouse is a page turner… we’re immersed in a chilly,
heart-wrenching story that seems to say that, for all our
obsessions with old wounds and childhood hurts, the thing that
damages us most of all is the thing of which we are unaware.”—The
Guardian
“Moore’s writing has a superb sense of the weight of memory.”—Kate
Saunders, The Times
“A haunting and accomplished novel.”—The Independent on Sunday
(UK)
“It is this accumulation of the quotidian, in prose as tight as
Magnus Mills’s, which lends Moore’s book its standout nature, and
brings the novel to its ambiguous, thrilling end.”—The Telegraph
(UK)
“Though sparely told, the novel’s simple-seeming narrative has the
density of far longer work. People and places are intricately
evoked with a forensic feel for mood.”—The Daily Mail (UK)
“Moore’s writing has a superb sense of the weight of memory.”—The
Times (UK)
“The Lighthouse is a spare, slim novel that explores grief and
loss, the patterns in the way we are hurt and hurt others, and the
childlike helplessness we feel as we suffer rejection and
abandonment. It explores the central question about leaving and
being left: even when it feels inevitable, why does it hurt so
much, and why is this particular kind of numbness so repellent to
others? The brutal ending continues to shock after several
re-readings.”—The Guardian (UK)
“The Lighthouse looks simple but isn't, refusing to unscramble what
seems a bleak moral about the hazards of reproduction, in the
widest sense. Small wonder that it stood up to the crash-testing of
a prize jury's reading and rereading. One of the year's 12 best
novels? I can believe it.”—The Observer (UK)
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