[ebooktalk] Re: Light Between Oceans
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 18:25:27 +0100
That does sound good Mandy. Will you report back on what you think of it.
Cheers,
Shell.
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From: "Mandy Palmer" <Mandy.Palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 4:29 PM
To: "Ebooktech" <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Light Between Oceans
> Hi,
> I've just downloaded this book with my credit for this month. I heard about
> it on a book show I listen to on my favourite South African station and the
> presenter Jenny raved about it. Any of you read it?
> Here is the blurb:
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> Publisher's Summary
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> The crying persisted. The door of the lighthouse clanged in the distance,
> and Tom's tall frame appeared on the gallery as he scanned the island with
> the binoculars. 'Izzy!' he yelled, 'a boat!' He vanished and re-emerged at
> ground level. 'It's a boat all right,' Tom declared. 'And - oh cripes!
> There's a bloke, but -' The figure was motionless, yet the cries still rang
> out. He hoisted out a woollen bundle: a woman's soft lavender cardigan
> wrapped around a tiny, screaming infant.
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> Tom Sherbourne, released from the horrors of the First World War, is now a
> lighthouse keeper, cocooned on a remote island with his young wife Izzy, who
> is content in everything but her failure to have a child.
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> One April morning, a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man - and a crying
> baby. Safe from the real world, Tom and Izzy break the rules and follow
> their hearts.
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> It is a decision with devastating consequences.
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> C2012 M L Stedman (P)2012 Random House AudioGo
> Love Mandy X
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