by M.L. StedmanPublisher description from Amazon.com:
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 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."
Our book group is by all accounts a tough crowd. We've got the lovers of historical fiction, for whom this book was a shoe-in, the thriller fans, who prefer that every page be action-packed and suspenseful, and the stalwart supporters of real-life memoirs and contemporary non-fiction.There's rarely a title that I can say that our group unanimously enjoyed. The Light Between Oceans was one of them. Our readers praised the realistic characters, the harsh reality of the ending, and the vibrant descriptions of barren Janus Rock. Several admitted to shedding a tear (or several), but they didn't feel manipulated into it.
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