Reading The Light Between Oceans is a total-immersion experience, extraordinarily moving. This is a novel in which justice for one character means another's tragic loss, and we care desperately for both. Stedman, a spectacularly sure storyteller, swept me to a remote island nearly a century ago, where a lighthouse keeper and his wife make a choice that shatters many lives, including their own.

It's a stunning debut.' -Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, 'An extraordinary and heart-rending book about good people, tragic decisions and the beauty found in each of them.' -Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, M.L. I couldn't look away from the page and then I couldn't see it, through tears. It gets into your heart stealthily, until you stop hoping the characters will make different choices and find you can only watch, transfixed, as every conceivable choice becomes an impossible one. Stedman's The Light Between Oceans is a beautiful novel about isolation and courage in the face of enormous loss. Moral dilemmas don't come more exquisite than the one around which Australian novelist Stedman constructs her debut.' - Kirkus Reviews, starred review, 'M.L. But it is also a description of the extraordinary, sustaining power of a marriage to bind two people together in love, through the most emotionally harrowing circumstances.' -Victoria Moore, The Daily Mail, 'The miraculous arrival of a child in the life of a barren couple delivers profound love but also the seeds of destruction. This is the story of its terrible consequences. 'As time passes the harder the decision becomes to undo and the more towering is its impact. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. But Isabel insists the baby is a 'gift from God,' and against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel.

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. The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks is ' a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page' ( O, The Oprah Magazine ).

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