The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was one great read ..... Tom returns from WWI, with some scars, becomes a light house keeper, ends up on the most remote light house island that there is in Australia. He meets Isabel on a shore leave, they fall in love and get married. They return to the island and in the course of a few hear Isabel has three miscarriages. And then the boat show up with a dead guy and a baby. Isabel convinces Tom to keep the baby. They discover where baby Lucy came from on a shore leave, and Tom can not stand it, over the next couple of years he leaves a couple of clues for the real mother that the baby is ok. They are discovered and have to give the baby back. Its a heart wrenching time for all. Tom is in jail and taking the whole fall for Isabel, Isabel is so mad at Tom she will not come to his aid. Finally she does, and the baby's real mother pleads for leniency. Tom goes to jail for six months and Isabel needs up in an asylum, but are reunited, and live a comfortable life. Isabel dies of cancer just before Lucy-Grace finally returns with her own son to see them. Great Great Book.

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