Book Log: The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans
By: M.L. Stedman
FOUR out of FIVE stars

my thoughts:
What would you do if...
Stedman does a beautiful job of making you ask yourself what would you do.

What happens when you are given the opportunity to heal a wound that will not heal itself. The decision that Isabel makes in this book changes no just her  but changes so many lives around her. Being married you want nothing but the best for your spouse. Would you give up everything that you have worked for to give them what they truly desire?

This book defiantly played with my Momma heart strings. It's one of those books you want to recommend to people to read BUT at the same time you are weary to recommend because it does play the Momma heart strings. I thought the book started out a little slow but not for long. Once you have started this book there is no way to put it down until you are done. You want to know what choices are made and how they play out. There are so many twists. The ending isn't something that I saw coming.


the run down:

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 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 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. 

The Light Between Oceans is exquisite and unforgettable, a deeply moving novel.