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A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly attained debut novel - the storyline of a lighthouse keeper and his better half who make one disastrous choice that forever changes two worlds. In 1918, after four harrowing years on the Western Forward, Tom Sherbourne comes back to Australia to have a job as the lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock. To the isolated island, where the supply motorboat comes only four times per year and shoreline leaves are granted every other calendar year at best, Tom brings a, bold, and caring wife, Isabel. Three years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel is tending the grave of her newly lost child when she hears a baby's cries on the wind. A motorboat has washed through to shore hauling a deceased man and a living baby. Tom, whose files as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral concepts have withstood a horrific war, wants to record the deceased man and the infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the small baby to her breast. Against Tom's common sense, they claim the child as their own and name her Lucy, but a rift commences to expand between them. When Lucy is two, Tom and Isabel go back to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people on the globe...and one of these is desperate to find her lost baby. M.L. Stedman's extraordinarily powerful characters, still trying to make sense of life in the wake of much death in the war, are imperfect people seeking to find their north legend in a world of incomprehensible complexity.
