The Light Between Oceans

M.L. Stedman 2012

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
grief loss love literary fiction

Our Take

A lighthouse keeper and his wife find a baby adrift in a boat. The moral impossible choice that follows is rendered with such tenderness it becomes unbearable. Stedman understands that grief is not clean and that love can be the cruelest form of taking.

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