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"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
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
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.
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It's been some time since I started and finished a 350-page book in one day, but this one was well worth the time on a cold, overcast January day. The premise was compelling - in the 1920's in an island lighthouse off the coast of rural Australia, a boat washes ashore, with a dead man and a crying infant. The young childless couple who manage the lighthouse take the baby in as their own.
What compelled me most as the story went forward is that the author treated the subject with compassion and au ...more
What compelled me most as the story went forward is that the author treated the subject with compassion and au ...more
Wow. Haven't felt that many emotions from a novel in a very long time. ...more
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