The Light Between Oceans

M L Stedman

Tom Sherbourne, released from the horrors of the First World War, is now a lighthouse keeper, cocooned on a remote Australian island with his young wife Izzy, who is content in everything but her failure to have a child.

One April morning, a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man – and a crying baby. Safe from the real world, Tom and Izzy break the rules and follow their hearts. It is a decision with devastating consequences.

M.L. Stedman was born and raised in Western Australia and now lives in London. The Light Between Oceans is being published in twenty territories to date, and is due to be made into a film…

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