The Light Between Oceans is a must-read. It's about a baby who gets washed up on a lighthouse island and the lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep her - without telling anyone about it. It works for them because they had just lost their 3rd baby to stillbirth so it was easy to just say it was theirs.
This is a beautiful and heartbreaking story about relationships more than anything. About the hardship and unfairness of life. About forgiveness, honesty, morality, and how sometimes, love muddles them. I enjoyed this book for its grey. My world is so often black and white, right or wrong, good or bad. I rarely see the grey in life, although it is fraught with it.
And I cried. A lot, especially at the end. Like, the ugly kind of cry. Weeping for the characters who all got the short end of the stick. Which is actually one thing I love about this book. All characters lose in some way or another. Sometimes in life, even when we right the wrongs that are done, everyone still loses. The Light Between Oceans would be a fantastic book for a book club - lots to talk about and cry over.
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