The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Publisher: Scribner
Publish Date: July 31, 2012
Format: Kobo ereader
Pages: -
ISBN: 978 1451681765

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper in Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast.  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.  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, 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.  But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast.  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. 

My Thoughts

This is a story of heartache.  If you are expecting a happy story, then it is not for you - it's pure heart-wrenching. What do you do when there is no right or wrong decision and no matter which you pick it will end up devastating the ones you love?  There is no answer.  You simple choose - and that is what Tom and Isabel did.

Beautifully told with characters that get so close to your heart you don't want to let them go.  There is not enough I can say about the amazing novel and the journey it will take you on.  Tales of love & lose and everything in between.  A story that stays with you long after you've finished.

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