Light Years

by maggie-gee

Lottie Lucas is the luckiest person she knows. She has looks, money, three houses and a teenage son she adores ...So why is her husband Harold walking out on her a few days before Christmas? Light Years is also about zoos and the zodiac; the seasons and the stars; and how humans see the natural world. It is a novel about the possibilities of happiness, a surprising and beautiful contemporary love story.

Genres: British Literature

1 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[MJ Nicholls]

Gee’s The Burning Book was an astonishing blast of originality, a ruddy marvellous hidden wonder in the Faber & Ditto back catalogue. Her third one is seriously meh middlebrow fiction that barely rises to prose peaks of the previous. Read up to p.122.

[Victoria Anette · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is really good.And i want to exchange it with another book in the library.I wanna ask the librarian if i could get this book because i really liked it.It was like tracing each other in a year as the stars go on as the way it used to..yes look up off from the page you are reading and stare at the dark sky.Reach deeper as far as your eyes and mind can perceive.It was a good concept.I've been looking for a book like this.I am only 15 but i really like this book.I love the way things have their scientific probability like a WEEK is .004 of one person's life.I hope many will like this book too.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is definitely more of a 4.5 stars - I really enjoyed it! I liked how the author zoomed out really far in the narrative and described what the planets were doing, and what people were doing all around the world, as well as detailing the everyday lives of the two main characters, Lottie and Harold. I thought it was a really unique book, and appreciated how the miscommunication between the characters felt genuine (as opposed to some more forced, frustrating miscommunication plot lines in more recent books) because they relied on calling each other from phone boxes and sending postcards.

[Coreen Balley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'd read My Cleaner, with the entitled, middle class ant-heroine, funny, witty, clever. Read this in my early twenties, had fond memories. Expectations too high, it didn't deliver for me. Lottie got on my nerves, couldn't engage with her.

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just Ok, certainly nothing earth shattering. I always felt for Davey and his rather dysfunctional family life. And the Tamarind. Nothing could have made me forgive Lottie for that horror. An absolute deal breaker for me.

[Helen Meads · Rating 2 out of 5]

40 years old and rather dated now. It’s all about overprivileged self-absorbed people, which is tedious. It earned the second star by having some will they/won’t they tension towards the end. I think it was meant to be funny, but not much of it was

Her other (later) books are much better.

[Betül · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read.

[Jo Birkett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite lightweight though fairly charming, I enjoyed reading & was glued to it by the end but not 5*, maybe it was her books generally that I rated 5* as I know I read lots of them at one time.

[Albertine67 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think 3 stars may actually be overegging it. I finished it, but I'm not really sure why I bothered. It didn't stay with me.

[Elisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

pretty good 👍🏻

[Carolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good value.