Most of the characters we meet are trying to find stability and security in a world that no longer makes any sense to them. This book is set on the remote (and real) tiny island of Janus Rock, that houses a lighthouse, off the coast of Western Australia (Point Partaguese, to be exact) on the heels of World War I. Stedman’s novel, “The Light Between Oceans”. The premise outlined above is the opening intro into author M.L. However, upon seeing your wife’s growing attachment to the abandoned child and still reeling from the loss you’ve both recently experienced, you go against what you know is right, morally and ethically correct, and decide to keep the child.Īnd that, people, is when things get heartrendingly interesting…and helluva complicated. You can either keep the child and raise her as your own, or you can contact the appropriate authorities and notify them of your discovery. They are the only two occupants of the dinghy and you are the only two witnesses to these new arrivals. On following the cries you and your wife discover a dinghy containing a dead man and a crying baby, swaddled in a lady’s cardigan. No, not the baby you are burying but another baby somewhere on your deserted island. Now imagine that while burying your third “child” you hear the cries of a baby. To say you are both feeling hopeless, helpless and a smidgen angry with Life is a bit of an understatement. You were working and didn’t hear her cries of pain when she was going through it. In fact, your wife just experienced her third miscarriage yesterday. You and your partner have been trying for a family and sadly you have been quite unsuccessful. You are there by choice, but still, you and your spouse basically make up the sum population of the entire area and people have to travel 4 – 6 hours (one way) to get to you. Picture, for a moment, you and your significant other living in the most deserted, isolated place on earth.

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