‘When I write, I just let a picture or a voice or a sentence come to me, and follow where it leads. I was lucky enough to meet the author, Margot, at her launch at the London Book Fair and asked her how the fascinating concept for the story developed. The Light Between Oceans is the stunning debut novel from M.L Stedman which was acquired by Transworld in a nine-way publisher bid. Only years later do they discover the devastating consequences of the decision they make that day – as the baby’s real story unfolds… Then one April morning a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man and a crying infant – and the path of the couple’s lives hits an unthinkable crossroads. The only inhabitants of Janus Rock, he and his wife Isabel live a quiet life, cocooned from the rest of the world.
Tom Sherbourne is a young lighthouse keeper on a remote island off Western Australia. ‘This is the story of right and wrong, and how sometimes they look the same’ National Emerging Writer Programme Overview.
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