The Light Between Oceans

The mesmerising tale of love and loss as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series

1926. Tom Sherbourne is a young lighthouse keeper on a remote island off Western Australia. The only inhabitants of Janus Rock, he and his wife Isabel live a quiet life, cocooned from the rest of the world.
Then one April morning a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man and a crying infant - and the path of the couple's lives hits an unthinkable crossroads.
Only years later do they discover the devastating consequences of the decision they made that day - as the baby's real story unfolds . . .

• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 368
• Imprint: Penguin
• Supplier: Penguin Random House Distribution
• Subjects: Code FA (scheme 12), Code 1MBFW (scheme 12), Code FBA (scheme 93), Code 1MBF-AU-W (scheme 94), Book of the Year; David Heyman; Dreamworks; New York Times bestseller; Western Australia; ABIA awards; Michael Fassbender; Alicia Vikander; Derek Cianfrance; WWI; World War One; 1920s; motherhood; parenthood; marriage; tragic; tragedy; moral dilemma