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THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS
By: M. L. Stedman
Scribner
August 2012
On Sale: July 31, 2012
356 pages
ISBN: 1451681739
EAN: 9781451681734
Kindle: B0064CL1T2
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The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielbergβs Dreamworks is βirresistibleβ¦seductiveβ¦with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first pageβ (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 dayβs 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 babyβs 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 βgift from God,β and against Tomβs 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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