If the love of his wife and the foundling are healing, The lighthouse mechanisms to keeping an accurate log, helps him rebuild a sense Him set the past aside attending to the many details of his work, from maintaining He suffers from the guilt of surviving hisįellow soldiers and of knowing he has killed. Having fought in the World War I trenches, he The point of view moves among several characters, but theĬentral focus is on the husband. Miscarriage and pretend the baby is their own. Which comes every three months, it's easy to omit mention of another OnĪn island off the western coast of Australia, accessible only by the supply boat Lighthouse keeper's wife begs her husband not to report his discovery of a boatĬontaining a dead man and a live baby. Rescue and raise a foundling - provided she doesn't ask too many questionsĪbout the baby's origin? In this lucidly written novel set in the 1920s, a Repeated miscarriages, a woman who yearns for a child has the opportunity to Oceans imagines a wrenching moral predicament.
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