The Light Between Oceans< /em> by M.L. Stedman
\n"Australia\, 1926. \;After four harro wing years fighting on the Western Front\, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock\, nearly half a day's jo urney from the coast. To this isolated island\, where the supply boat come s once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best\, To m brings a young\, bold\, and loving wife\, Isabel. Years later\, after tw o miscarriages and one stillbirth\, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cri es on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a liv ing baby.
\nTom\, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulou s and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war\, wants to repo rt the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to h er breast. Against Tom's judgment\, they claim her as their own and name h er Lucy. When she is two\, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are r eminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devasta ted one of them.
\nM. L. Stedman's mesmerizing\, beautifully written debut novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel's decision to keep this "gift from God." And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compe lling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there i s no right answer\, where justice for one person is another's tragic loss. " - Goodreads
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