The Light Between OceansThe Light Between Oceans
a Novel
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Book, 2012
Current format, Book, 2012, First Scribner hardcover edition, Available .A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel about a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. In 1918, Tom takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock. Three years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel is tending the grave of her newly lost infant when she hears a baby's cries in the wind. A boat has washed up on shore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom wants to report the dead man and the infant immediately, But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim the child as their own and name her Lucy. When Lucy is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world - and one of them is desperate to find her lost baby.
A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel about a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. In 1918, Tom takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock. Three years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel is tending the grave of her newly lost infant when she hears a baby's cries in the wind. A boat has washed up on shore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom wants to report the dead man and the infant immediately, But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim the child as their own and name her Lucy. When Lucy is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world - and one of them is desperate to find her lost baby.
A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel about a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. In 1918, Tom takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock. Three years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel is tending the grave of her newly lost infant when she hears a baby's cries in the wind. A boat has washed up on shore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom wants to report the dead man and the infant immediately, But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim the child as their own and name her Lucy. When Lucy is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world - and one of them is desperate to find her lost baby.
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