![]() Stedman was really able to pull me into the setting. The descriptions of Janus island were absolutely mesmerizing. I find lighthouses mysterious and magical, so I was excited to read a book centered around a lighthouse keeper and his wife. I thought the cover was stunning and the synopsis sounded intriguing, so into the cart it went. I believe I came across this one when I had added a book into my online shopping cart, and this had popped up as a book recommendation to the book I was purchasing. This book was part of my birthday book haul back in April. ![]() The Light Between Oceans is exquisite and unforgettable, a deeply moving novel. Stedman’s mesmerizing, beautifully written novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel’s decision to keep this “gift from God.” And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another’s tragic loss. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. ![]() Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Set in Australia in the 1920’s, The Light Between Oceans is a beautifully written historical fiction that centers around what happens when a good man is persuaded into a bad decision by the wife he desperately wants to save from herself…Īfter 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.
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