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. “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** * Stedman’s vivid characters and gorgeous descriptions of the solitude of Janus Rock and of the unpredictable Australian frontier create a perfect backdrop for the tale of longing, loss, and the overwhelming love for a child that is *The Light Between Oceans*. The baby seems like a gift from God, and the couple’s reasoning for keeping her seduces the reader into entering the waters of treacherous morality even as Tom-whose moral code withstood the horrors of World War I-begins to waver. When a baby washes up in a rowboat, he and his young wife Isabel decide to raise the child as their own. **Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2012** : Tom Sherbourne is a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, a tiny island a half day’s boat journey from the coast of Western Australia. 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.

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