The light between book7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() After so much heartache with trying to have a baby of their own, Isabel really wants to keep the baby to raise as their own. In the small boat are a dead man and a baby. After a few more losses, one day Tom spots a dinghy coming towards them. After being married for a little bit, Isabel gets pregnant, but sadly loses the baby. They decide, in their letters, to get married because Isabel can only come out to Janus Rock if she’s the lighthouse keeper’s wife. After sending each other letters for a while, which can only be delivered to each other every few months when the supply ship comes. While briefly in a port town on the mainland he meets a young woman, Isabel, and hits it off with her. Tom Sherbourne is a World War I veteran who has recently taken on a lighthouse keeper posting on Janus Rock – a remote piece of land hours off the coast of Australia. ![]() I had heard that the movie was really sad so that made me hesitant to read the book because I wasn’t really in the mood to read a sad story. ![]() I wanted to read the book before seeing the movie and didn’t have time back in the fall. The Light Between Oceans came out in the movie theaters in the fall and the book was published in 2012, but I just got around to reading the novel and watching the movie. ![]()
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