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Australian Tom Sherbourne, a World War I veteran, meets young Isabel in the town of Point Partaguese. Tom and Isabel soon marry and move to the isolated island of Janus Rock where Tom is the lighthouse keeper.
The lighthouse keeper and his family live alone on Janus Island, having sporadic contact with the mainland via supply boats and occasional shore leaves.
A few years later, while Isabel is in deep mourning after suffering three miscarriages, a small boat lights upon the shore of Janus Isla ...more
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Re-read for book club January 2013. I have a soft spot for damaged characters and the book was just as enjoyable the second time around.
After World War I, an emotionally scarred Tom accepts a post as a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, an isolated island off the coast of Australia. He’s resigned to living a life of loneliness and solitude but he unexpectedly finds love when he meets Isabel on a shore excursion. They marry and return to an idyllic, happy, and isolated life on the island. Is ...more
3.5 stars. "The Light Between Oceans" is a historical fiction book that takes place in Australia. A couple is charged with keeping the lighthouse functioning on an island. It's just Isabel and Tom and no one else. Isabel longs for a baby but is not having any luck conceiving so when a boat washes up on the shore with a dead man and a baby, it seems like fate has brought the couple the baby that they long for. Isabel instantly takes to the baby even as Tom has misgivings about not trying to find
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I don't know why I didn't love this book...wait, I do. It was a no brainer what the right decision should be and then it was a lot of sighing and eye rolling.
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This was not for me, I felt like I was reading a
Lifetime channel movie. I struggled with the beginning because the most pivotal plot point was used to "hook" you in but then the narrative jumped back in time and you had to slog through just to get back to where you started. Throughout the book major plot hints were dropped, which anyone could easily and immediately understand the impact of, but which then took 50 or so pages to come to fruition. I just kept getting impatient for the story to get ...more
Lifetime channel movie. I struggled with the beginning because the most pivotal plot point was used to "hook" you in but then the narrative jumped back in time and you had to slog through just to get back to where you started. Throughout the book major plot hints were dropped, which anyone could easily and immediately understand the impact of, but which then took 50 or so pages to come to fruition. I just kept getting impatient for the story to get ...more
The Light Between Oceans is the marriage of historical fiction with the tearjerker movie-of-the-week. Upfront, let me say I've liked my share of these movies; Deception: A Mother's Secret still gets me teary eyed with that fire truck and the yellow paint and... *sniffle* okay, enough about that. But those stories tend to be a bit too formulaic—a formula meant to manipulate the viewers'/readers' emotions--The Light Between Oceans is guilty of the same.
The Light Between Oceans is largely well-writ ...more
The Light Between Oceans is largely well-writ ...more
This book captivated me right from the beginning-I did not want to ever put it down....gave me the same sort of feeling as Ami McKay's The Birth HOuse or The Secret Daughter.....my family laughed at me as I read the last few pages with tears streaming down my face...not sure that it was that sad of an ending.....I think part of it was that I didn't want the story to end.....you will find yourself asking what you would do....and realizing the truth in for every choice there is price.....and seein
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