MILD ADVENTURE
LOVE IN A LIGHTHOUSE, by G. R. Gilberts Pegasus Press, 12/6. ALREADY known to many who have heard it broadcast, Love in a Lighthouse is the story of Mr. Gilbert’s 18months’ stay as assistant-keeper on a station in the Hauraki Gulf. He went there with his wife and small. son; the only other residents were the principal keeper and his wife. I suspect that the author, who is known as a fiction writer, has not hesitated to improve on the facts to make a good story-I find it hard to believe, for instance, that a man who, according to the dust jacket, is "now back in the R.N.Z.A.F. working on his first love-wadar," should be as scared as he says he was of a 32-volt battery lighting system; but one should not, I suppose, complain about that. This is light, pleasant, good-humoured stuff with a strong domestic flavour. It improves, too, as it goes along; and in a narrative which gives a good deal of attention to new skills learned and mild adventures I liked especially Mr. Gilbert’s dttempts to milk a cow and master the horse Tommy-the chapter about Tommy is very good. I seldom found the book terribly funny, but I suspect the fault there is mine rather than the author’s. My wife, whose taste and judgment I generally respect, liked it very much, and was much more amused by it, as I think most women would be.
F.A.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 12
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244MILD ADVENTURE New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 12
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