Summary
After WWI, Tom Sherbourne accepts the position as lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, an isolated Australian island. After four years on the island, a small boat washes ashore with a dead man and a newborn. (Tom's wife Isabel had suffered two miscarriages and a stillborn.) Assuming the mother is also dead, Tom and Isabel decide to keep the baby and raise her as their own. Eventually back on the mainland for Lucy's baptism, they observe a memorial for the missing husband and baby of Hannah Roennfeldt. Lucy's birthmother is alive.
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Critique
A wonderful, heartbreaking story. Highly recommend.
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