Lighthouse Keeper

Quick overview It is winter, just before Christmas. On the cliffs above the transit town of Port Hiver, stands a decommissioned lighthouse. Inside, a man who calls himself Peter Boniface, ponders the falling snow and his imminent retirement. Boniface, a psychotherapist, is plucked by the arrival of an unexpected visitor out of his reverie and into the most hazardous case of his career. His visitor is bones, a former paramilitary, seeking, he says, 'to make a good death'. The Lighthouse Keeper, in the form of a case history, is an account of this encounter, the outcome of which will determine everything about the remaining lives of both men. Nothing less than an examination of the conflicting values underpinning Irish culture, the novel traces the intersecting worlds of its two protagonists, extending in significance far beyond the confines of Boniface's consulting room.