The Lightkeeper's Wife ~ Karen Viggers

If you are feeling a bit 'down', don't read this novel.  It is as grey and morose as the Tasmanian weather where it is set.

The book blurb states that "The Lightkeeper's Wife is a moving story of love, loss and family."  Well, it's a theme that has been done to death, and a lot better too.  For a start it's more about the Lightkeeper's son, not the wife, and there Viggers is totally unable to write a sympathetic New Age male character without him coming across as pathetic and feminine.

I was completely bored with this novel and frustrated with it's whining monotone.