This
months-long New York Times bestseller 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.
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