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The Light Between Oceans
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July 1, 2013
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Lauren
Sep 24, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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This novel encompasses grief. The grief of loss, both through war and through life.

Tom has lost so much. He feels he lost his humanity in the war, he lost his mother at a young age, he lost his family by choice and he embraces his losses by working a solitary job as a lighthouse operator.

Then he meets the young, vivacious Isabel and he falls for her just as she falls for him. The only problem in their marriage is the inability to bear living children. Reading of Isabel's repeated losses was he
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Dierdra McGill
The light between oceans was such a beautiful book! The writing was just amazing. A story about love and loss and what our choices will do to others.
Tom and Isabel run a lighthouse and when a dead man in a boat shows up there is also a baby after having a few miscarriage's Isabel talks Tom into not telling anyone and keeping the baby since no one knew she had lost her last baby anyway. They eventually find out what this choice has done to other people. They live isolated on an island I can imagi
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Sandra Heinzman
Excellent book! What a moral dilemma the characters faved!
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