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The light between oceans : a novel / M.L. Stedman.
"A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore"-- Provided by publisher.
Australia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
Record details
- ISBN: 1451681755 (trade paper)
- ISBN: 9781476705026
- ISBN: 9781451681734 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 1451681739 (hardcover) :
- ISBN: 9781451681758 (trade paperback) :
- ISBN: 9781476738086 (trade paperback) :
- Physical Description: 345 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2012.
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Salmo Public Library | FIC STE (Text) | 35163000073242 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Available | - |
| 100 Mile House Branch | STE (Text) | 33923004960575 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Big Lake Branch | STE (Text) | 33923005137132 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC STE (Text) | 35146001772110 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Chetwynd Public Library | Fic Ste (Text) | 35222000857606 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Creston Public Library | FIC STE (Text) | 35140000976830 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | F STE (Text) | DCL163822 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-08-15 |
| Elkford Public Library | FC STE (Text) | 35170000348623 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC STE (Text) | 35136000358045 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort Nelson Public Library | FIC STE (Text) | 15246000760050 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
