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Wonderful depiction of setting (lighthouse on a one-square-mile island with no land in sight!) but the melodrama of plot was a turn-off.
Okay, I re-thought this a bit after a really good book group discussion about the conflict and characters (for example, Isabel must choose between her husband and her child. And she makes the right choice. She must.) Still I most enjoyed the exquisite description of an interesting place, early in its development: remote coasts of Australia after WWI. And how th ...more
Okay, I re-thought this a bit after a really good book group discussion about the conflict and characters (for example, Isabel must choose between her husband and her child. And she makes the right choice. She must.) Still I most enjoyed the exquisite description of an interesting place, early in its development: remote coasts of Australia after WWI. And how th ...more
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