The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks that is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey … nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
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spoiler alert: The story was unique and easy to read but I find it interesting that no one mentions that from the very beginning the two boat men from a small town never mentions to the light-keeper that there was someone missing, and to be on the look-out for a lost dinghy with a man and child that may somehow find it’s way in his area; isn’t …
M. L. Stedman’s novel The Light Between Oceans doesn’t need more publicity than it’s already being given out there. But a book such as this needs to be touted so that readers don’t miss it.
The story is of Tom Sherbourne who returns to Australia after the war and gets a job on a lone island, Janus Rock, as a lighthouse keeper. Nearly a half-day’s …
Good book, so many turns in the story..So heartbreaking for everyone involved
An amazing story, Interesting characters. Leaves you with the question ” What would I have done”
I wanted to read this book after seeing the movie. It is a story of what transpires after a decision is made. This decision affects so many people, and it is haunting to see what happens to such a kind and loving couple. The novel gives extra background to the characters, especially Tom and Hannah. Its setting of a small town in Australia and the …