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| Original Title: | The Light Between Oceans |
| ISBN: | 1451681739 (ISBN13: 9781451681734) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Tom Sherbourne, Isabel Sherbourne, Lucy / Grace, Hannah Roennfeldt |
| Setting: | Australia,1926 |
| Literary Awards: | Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Book of the Year & Debut Fiction (2013), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction, for Newcomer, and for Book of the Year (2013), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2013), Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction (2012), HWA Debut Crown (2013) |
M.L. Stedman
Hardcover | Pages: 343 pages Rating: 4.03 | 376841 Users | 34083 Reviews
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A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds.Australia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, 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 debut novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel's decision to keep this "gift from God." And we are 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.
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| Title | : | The Light Between Oceans |
| Author | : | M.L. Stedman |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 343 pages |
| Published | : | July 31st 2012 by Scribner (first published July 2012) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Australia |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 376841 Users | 34083 ReviewsEvaluation Appertaining To Books The Light Between Oceans
5★ Fantastic debut novelOh what a tangled web we weave! Its too easy to justify to ourselves what we want to do rather than what were pretty sure we should do no, thats wrong we know exactly what we should do. We just cant bear to think about it. . . yet. Like Scarlet OHara, well think about it tomorrow.Im a great rationaliser and pretty handy at arguing either side of a question, so I find it easy to imagine being in the shoes of all these different characters. And they are distinctive,I am going to start with review with a disclaimer. This review is subjective, from my point of view etc. I thought this book was terrible, bad, no good. You dont have to agree with me, and you could think that this was the most AMAZING book and your eyes almost exploded from all the awesomeness that traveled through them to reach your brain which leapt in your skull with every sentence you read, and that is fine. I do not think that you are inferior to me. Now on to my review. Stop here for
My very first book for 2013, and one I spent the latter half of last year just longing to get my hands on.Well, I finished The Light Between Oceans in only two sittings, in one single day! And this novel - a heartbreaking exploration of right and wrong, and the lonely windswept grey island which lies between the two - has completely wrung me out on only Day One of a brand new reading year. How I wept. I mean absolutely WEPT. No parent could bear such sorrow, on either side of the swirling misery
This book is very good but I'm giving it 3 stars because I'm being severe with the story and not get carried away by emotion. It is a 'rocambolesque' (topsy turvy) tale, narrated by the all knowing author.See, I can't decide whether the drama in the book has crossed the line and become melodrama. I know that there are worse books out there, and that many classics are not as good as this book.Despite that, I need an honest view of the book. I need to look at this rating in 4-5 years and say I
ETA: Sep 20, 2015Oh, this review. First, I read this book way back in 2012. I don't know that I would write such a review now, whether or not I hate a book. I've had an attitude shift, if not in life, then in review writing. I've wanted to change it for a while now, but I don't remember most of the book. I also can't make any defense against specific arguments from commenters who liked the book, because of the same. I read this when I had no baby. At some point after I had my own bundle of joy,
The Light Between Oceans is an incredibly moving novel about what happens when good people make bad decisions. The story takes place in the town of Point Partageuse, Australia during the 1920s. The story begins when a light house keeper and his wife find a life boat containing a live baby (and dead man) on the shore of their isolated island. Through a mixture of misplaced intentions and unsupported superstition they decide to raise the child as their own -- deciding not to inform the authorities
'' The oceans never stop. They know no beginning or ending. The wind never finishes. Sometimes it disappears, but only to gather momentum from somewhere else... '''' He watches the ocean surrender to night, knowing that the light will reappear. What a book... What a lovely story..such wonderful prose.. The Light Between Oceans tells the story of Tom and Isabel, two of my most beloved characters ever! Their unconditional love leads them to the wrong decision. And then there's no going back...
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