The light between oceans

Author: M.L. Stedman
Publisher: New York: Scribner, 2012.

Following the trauma of WWI, Tom Sherbourne moves to a remote lighthouse posting on Janus Rock, taking his young and beautiful new wife Isabel with him. The two experience heartache as they try to build a new family. When fate brings a newborn baby washed up ashore, their next decision will redefine the lives they lead and the secrets they keep. The story develops in a melancholic and haunting way, reflecting the isolation and moral dilemma that Tom and Isabel face and the joy marked with sorrow in their new life. Years later, guilt continues to consume Tom as they return to the Australian mainland and face reality.
If you enjoyed the film, you will be drawn into the "lush descriptions of this savage and beautiful landscape" (Booklist review). Readers will easily empathise with heart-broken, inherently "good" characters who find love and beauty at the expense of the moral consequences.

Available in paperback , CD audiobook , eAudiobook (via Bolinda BorrowBox) at the Inner West council library.

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