David Hughes reviewed Stargazing by Peter Hill
An elegy to a vanished profession
5 stars
In 1973, Peter Hill takes a summer away from art school in Dundee to be a trainee lighthouse keeper. This book pressed so many buttons for me. I lived in Dundee, in the same streets, albeit a decade later. I remember the Television Peter and his companions watched. And I fancied being a lighthouse keeper before automation eliminated that job.