WWN Book Club Discussion

Event time: 
Monday, October 3, 2016 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211 See map
320 York Street
Event description: 

This meeting we’ll be reading The Light Between Oceans by M/L. Stedman. We hope you will join us for a great discussion. New members are always welcome! Book description: 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.

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