The Light Between Oceans (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781451681734)

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

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. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, 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, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. 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. 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.

Author: M. L. Stedman
ISBN-10: 1451681739
ISBN-13: 9781451681734
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2012
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.41w x 0.97d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 186332 / Light Between Oceans


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/2012 pg. 93
Library Journal 05/15/2012 pg. 75
Publishers Weekly 06/04/2012 pg. 28
Booklist 07/01/2012 pg. 34
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2012 pg. 1442
Entertainment Weekly 08/03/2012 pg. 79
New Yorker (The) 09/03/2012 pg. 69