6/23/2023 0 Comments The light between oceans book![]() ![]() ![]() Aboard, are a dead man and a squalling infant. One afternoon, Tom is startled to discover a shipwrecked boat on the beach. Depressed that she cannot fulfill her role as a woman and a wife, Isabel retreats into a dark depression that permeates the island. Tom and Isabel adore their isolated life together on the island, but their honeymoon comes crashing to a halt when Isabel miscarries three consecutive pregnancies. A year after Tom moves to Janus Rock, he and Isabel are married, and he takes her to live with him in the lighthouse. When he lands on Point Partageuse, Tom meets a beautiful young woman named Isabel Graysmark, and the two fall in love. During the trip, Tom witnesses one of the ex-soldiers attacking a rich, female passenger, and he stops the soldier from harming the woman. On his way to the mainland the first time, Tom rides in the bottom of a large ship, surrounded by fellow ex-soldiers whom he feels camaraderie toward. ![]() He is sent as a temporary keeper to Janus Rock, a tiny island off Point Partageuse, after the previous keeper went insane. "The Light Between Oceans" tells the tragic story of lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and his wife Isabel who, after discovering a baby in a shipwrecked boat, must face the terrible consequences of their decision to raise the child as their own.Īt the opening of the novel, Tom has just left service in WWI and has signed on a lighthouse keeper with the Australian harbormaster. ![]()
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