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Author Stedman, M. L.

Title The light between the oceans : a novel / M. L. Stedman.

Imprint New York, NY : Scribner, 2012.

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 Eureka Fiction  F Ste    ---  Available
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description 345 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Summary "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,k 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. M. L. Stedman's mesmerizing, beautifully written novel seduces us into accommodation Isabel's decision to keep this "Gift from God." And we ares 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."--From publisher description.
Subject Sherbourne,Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Sherbourne, Isabel (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Married people -- Fiction.
Foundlings -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
ISBN 9781451681734

 
    
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