Reading Buddy Style discussion

We had two nominations for the same book so there will be no poll this month.

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.

I read this a few months ago. It is definitely one those books that makes you think and stays with you long afterwards. I don't want to put any spoilers in here until after everyone else has read this and we can discuss it further, but I will warn you not to bring this one along if you will be around others unless you enjoy public crying!

Finished this one a couple days ago, but haven't had a chance to post yet. Wasn't sure what I wanted to say anyway... I thought it was a really good book - very beautifully written, and not in a pretentious way. I really enjoyed it, as much as a person can enjoy a book that ends the way this one did. Like Megan, I will wait for people to finish before I comment on the ending. Good book, though. Glad I read it.