The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
No joke. While watching the Olympics, they showed the movie trailer for this. I was captivated by it, so I immediately ordered the book. I was not as captivated by the book....at first.
The first couple of pages set the stage for the story that is to happen. Unfortunately, the next eighty pages are boring, and hard to get through. I learned far more about what it is like to be a lighthouse keeper than anyone other than a lighthouse keeper should know. This information even overshadowed the courtship and early marriage of Tom and Isabel.
Luckily, the book picks up when Isabel and Tom, after having three unsuccessful pregnancies, find a boat that has washed ashore with a dead man and a baby inside. Tom wants to report them, but Isabel, who is heartbroken with this last lost child, begs him to keep the baby who washed ashore. Against his better judgment, Tom agrees.
For four years, Tom and Isabel raise Lucy as their own. During that time, they find that Lucy's mother still lives. Tom wants to come forward, and tell her about her daughter, but Isabel doesn't want to. Tom leaves letters for Lucy's mother, and the officials pursue the matter. Tom is arrested, and takes all the blame, in an effort to save Isabel.
Will Tom be successful in this? Will they ever see Lucy again?
So. Many. Feels.
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