How could the performance have been better? It is such a shame because this is such a beautifully written story. I was missing so much of what he said that I went to the library and checked out the book. On the long sentences his voice would either speed up and at the same time fade away. I listen to a lot of audio books and this is the worst narrator I have ever heard. This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more? Horrible Narration, GET THE BOOK FROM THE LIBRARY Stedman’s extraordinarily compelling characters, still trying to make sense of life in the wake of so much death in the war, are imperfect people seeking to find their north star in a world of incomprehensible complexity. When Lucy is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world…and one of them is desperate to find her lost baby. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim the child as their own and name her Lucy, but a rift begins to grow between them. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the dead man and the infant immediately. A boat has washed up on shore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Three years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel is tending the grave of her newly lost infant when she hears a baby’s cries on the wind. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes only four times a year and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. In 1918, after four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock. A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds.

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