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The light between oceans : 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.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 1451681755 (trade paper)
- ISBN: 9781476705026
- ISBN: 9781451681734 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 1451681739 (hardcover) :
- ISBN: 9781451681758 (trade paperback) :
- ISBN: 9781476738086 (trade paperback) :
- Physical Description: 345 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2012.
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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| Hudson's Hope Public Library | FIC FIC STE (Text) | BHH035871 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kaslo and District Public Library | APB STE (Text) | 35134000410403 | Adult Paperback | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kimberley Public Library | F STE (Text) | 35137000031483 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Lena Schultz Reading Room | Fic Ste (Text) | 35191900027851 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| McBride | Fic Gen-Fic Ste (Text) | 35191000206116 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Midway Public Library | Fic STE (Text) | 35143000231131 | Adult Hardcover Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nelson Public Library | F STE (Text) | 35148400156465 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Prince Rupert Library | Sted (Text) | 33294001824960 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Rossland Public Library | FIC STE (Text) | 35162000057171 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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