Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Scribner, 2013
Pages: 345
Rating: Recommend
Synopsis: 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. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, 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, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. 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. 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.
Review: I pulled another book off my lengthy To Be Read list. This was a hot book when it was published and it sat on my "shelf" for years.
While I was never sucked into the story or emotionally attached, it was good enough to keep me reading.
To sum it up, I came, I saw, and I conquered. This just wasn't special. A Do Not Recommend rating seems harsh to me since it's not a bad story with the potential to appeal to many, so I'll go with Recommend.
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