Stedman, M. L.,

The light between oceans : a novel / M.L. Stedman. - First Scribner hardcover edition - 345 pages : map ; 24 cm.

"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"-- Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences.

9781451681734 (hardback)

2011050244


Married people--Fiction.
Foundlings--Fiction.
FICTION / General.
FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / Literary.
Married people--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.


Australia--Fiction.
Australia--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.

PR9619.4.S735 / L54 2012

823/.92 FIC