E-book
The light between oceans [electronic resource] : a novel / M.L. Stedman.
"A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451681765
- ISBN: 1451681763
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Illustrations on endpapers. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Married people > Fiction. Foundlings > Fiction. Australia > Fiction. FICTION > General. FICTION > Historical. FICTION > Literary. Foundlings. Married people. Australia. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Electronic books. Domestic fiction. Fiction. |
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Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
"A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore"-- - Baker & Taylor
Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences. - Simon and Schuster
The spectacular New York Times bestseller and major motion picture about a lighthouse keeper and his wife is "a beautifully delineated tale of love and loss, right and wrong, and what we will do for the happiness of those most dear" (The Boston Globe).
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 dayâs 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 babyâs 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 âgift from God,â and against Tomâs 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.
