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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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451681734 (hc) :
- ISBN: 9781451681758 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 345 p. : map, facsim. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York ; Scribner, 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Facsim. on endpapers. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Foundlings > Fiction. Married people > Fiction. Australia > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | FIC Stedm | 31681010029916 | FICTION | Available | - |
| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Stedm | 31681010029908 | FICTION | Checked out | 11/01/2025 |
- Baker & Taylor
Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences. - Baker & Taylor
Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant who has washed up on the shore only to witness a rift in their marriage that is further complicated by a search by the baby's desperate mother. A first novel. 150,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"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"-- - Simon and Schuster
The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielbergâs Dreamworks is âirresistibleâ¦seductiveâ¦with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first pageâ (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 dayâs 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 babyâs 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 âgift from God,â and against Tomâs 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.
