A review by nomiddlename
The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill

3.0

The first 200 pages of this were hard work. The prose is a bit florid, as befits a Victorian-era story I suppose - I found myself re-reading sections that didn't make much sense to start with, then skipping other sections once I realised they were just padding. Once I worked out what was going on in the story, around about page 200, I started to enjoy it a lot more and carried on reading to see if I was right. Which I was. The last 150 pages cancel out the tedium of the first 200.