The Light Between Oceans: The heartrending Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy pick

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It is also a story of how decisions we make today can shatter someone else’s life and eventually put us at a crossroads in the future. I first venture off to Wikipedia to meet Janus, but then landed upon an interview with the author explaining the god's significance in the book, which most of us totally missed out on, myself the main sleeper on the bunk bed!

He spends his last days on the mainland in Point Partageuse, during which he meets a young woman named Isabel Graysmark. 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. You may find yourself sympathizing with various characters at different points and hating them at others. So when a dead man and a living baby washes ashore, Tom's got a whole lot of fucking paperwork to fill out. We already know she loves children and she wants nothing more than to have a house full of them so it comes as a special tragedy when she miscarries.Looking for restoration and peace the couple move to an isolated lighthouse where they try to rebuild their lives and long for a child that never comes. Irrelevant or distracting side plots would have pulled me away from Tom and Isabel's narrative and weakened my investment in their turmoil.

When Isabel brings Tom the map of Janus, complete with new names for all the locations on the island, Tom has an interesting reaction: “Janus did not belong to him: he belonged to it, like he’d heard the natives thought of the land. Two weeks after the stillbirth, they are shocked when a dinghy washes up carrying a dead man and a living infant girl. But in this lawless land, in this lawless time, there are still regulations and shit to be followed. A New York Times bestseller and now a major film starring Michael Fassbender and Alice Vikander, Light Between Oceans .The story is full of pointless dialog and characters (and not even Jane Austin style with enjoyable pointless dialog. Apparently, this is not what Isabel thinks love is, so this makes her the villain of the story in my perspective. Isabel claims that it’s no coincidence that the baby came into their lives so soon after giving birth to a stillborn and insists on keeping the infant as their own, naming her Lucy. Once (if) you accept that the plot revolves around an isolated couple who find a baby in a boat that's washed up on the shore of the lighthouse where they live and, hey why not, decide to keep it, you find that there's a lovely, heartbreaking story in a beautiful setting with characters you love to hate.