Book Club Discussion Kit. a novel / The light between oceans
(Kit)

Book published by Scribner, 2013.

Title and statement of responsibility from book T.p.

Paperback book: Scribner, 2013, ©2012.

Large print book: Thorndike Press, ©2012. 551 pages (large print).

Audiobook: Penguin Audio, ℗2012, ©2012. Unabridged. Read by Noah Taylor. 9 discs (10.5 hrs.)

Martin County Public Library. A cloth bag containing 10 copies of the title, including: regular print, 1 audio book, 1 large print copy.

Watonwan County Library. cloth bag contains 10 paperback copies of the title, 1 large print book and 1 audiobook, along with 1 folder containing book sign out sheets and book club discussion questions.

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, 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, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and 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.

Accelerated Reader AR,UG,5.6,16,186332.