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The Light Between Oceans

M.L. Stedman

Start date: March 22, 2013

Finish date: March 31, 2013

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Jan 06, 2016 Trisha rated it really liked it

"We always have a choice."

This was a very well done, tough book. A story about love - about the right to love, the pain of loss, the love of a parent, the love of a wife and husband. It's such a tangled web with so many wrong and right answers but even more gray ones. You just never know how things will turn out. ...more

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Mar 21, 2015 Trisha rated it really liked it

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What a moral quandary this book was! I was torn between wanting to finish the book to see how it ends, and not wanting to finish the book because I wasn't sure that I really wanted to know how it was going to end, because there was just no possible way that all parties involved would have a happily ever after. I wasn't thrilled with the ending, but then again, I'm not sure how I would have wanted it to end. Still a great book with a lot of thought-provoking questions. ...more

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Sep 30, 2016 Neila rated it it was amazing

I loved this book. It had me in tears by the end. My heart went out to all the flawed characters and the decisions they made -- often doing what they thought was right for them but turned out to be wrong for others. Everyone was hurt in one way or another, but everyone also found peace eventually. One passage really hit home to me: "You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things." ...more

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Sep 09, 2013 Rachel N. rated it really liked it

Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia after fighting in WWI and becomes a lighthouse keeper. While tended the light on Janus Tom gets shore leave in Partaguese where he meets and marries Isabel. There life is tainted by the grief of Isabel's two miscarriages and one stillbirth when a baby and a dead body wash up in a rowboat on the island. Their decision to keep the baby and raise her as their own has far reaching repercussions. A gut twisting story. I could identify with the motives and feelings ...more

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