After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.

M. L. Stedman’s mesmerizing, beautifully written novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel’s decision to keep this “gift from God.” And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another’s tragic loss.

The Light Between Oceans is exquisite and unforgettable, a deeply moving novel

M.L.斯特德曼（M.L. Stedman）：M.L.斯特德曼在西澳大利亞長大，現居倫敦。《大洋之間的光》是作者的第一部作品，該書一經推齣便空降各大暢銷書排行榜，榮獲澳大利亞獨立書商協會最佳處女作奬、美國亞馬遜年度最佳處女作奬、Goodreads讀者選擇奬等多項國際重量級大奬，並入選澳大利亞獨立書商協會年度選書、美國亞馬遜當月選書、國際都柏林文學奬長名單、澳大利亞富蘭剋林文學奬長名單，連續數年盤踞《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜。同名電影由夢工廠參與製作，並獲得威尼斯國際電影節金獅奬提名。