![]() ![]() But it is also a description of the extraordinary, sustaining power of a marriage to bind two people together in love, through the most emotionally harrowing circumstances." -Victoria Moore, The Daily Mail, "The miraculous arrival of a child in the life of a barren couple delivers profound love but also the seeds of destruction. ![]() This is the story of its terrible consequences. "As time passes the harder the decision becomes to undo and the more towering is its impact. ![]() When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. ![]() But Isabel insists the baby is a "gift from God," and against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks is " a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" ( O, The Oprah Magazine ). ![]()
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