The Light Between Oceans

I finished a novel yesterday entitled The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman.  It is such a wonderful beautiful book I just had to write about it.  Surely this book will be a movie in the not too distant future, if other people find it as intriguing and sweet and thought-provoking as I did.  

The book centers around Tom & Isabel.  It tells of Tom's return from WW I, and his job as keeper of a lighthouse just off the Australian coast.  I love all the details the author gives of time & tide & stars & what life is like on a lonely island as a lighthouse keeper.  After Tom & Isabel marry they live on the island together & are so happy.  One day a small boat washes up containing the body of a dead man & a small crying baby.  The decisions Tom & Isabel make from that day forward and the reasons for those decisions and the repercussions in the lives of so many other people are told through the rest of the book...and told in such a beautiful way.  

The joy and heartbreaks of parenthood, love, war, birth, death, consequences, the vastness of sky & ocean, & above all, forgiveness are some of the themes that kept me drawn into this book.  The book is fictional, but all of the heartbreaks & beauty of life that it portrays are all too real.  

If you are looking for a book to read, I highly recommend this one.  If you read it, let me know if you liked it...and if you, too, cried at the end.