The Light Between Oceans

The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks that 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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 07/31/2012
ISBN: 9781451681734
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.41w x 0.97d

Review Citations: 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

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