The premise of this book drew me in when I picked it up at a
garage sale. A couple, unable to have children and alone as the lighthouse
keepers for a tower on an island near Australia, discover a boat with the body
of a man and a living baby washed up on the beach. The moral dilemma becomes
should they report the body and baby, or raise the baby as their own.
Of course they choose to keep the baby, but guilt overwhelms
the husband once they discover the mother of the child is living in the hometown
of the wife.
I really want to say that I liked this book, but at times,
it veered too close to being an average romance for my tastes, and the
resolution was almost too tidy. These are all personal preference things. It
reads fast and the plot motivates the reader to plow through the pages to find
out what happens. I guess part of me wanted more, I am not sure what, but a
deeper story maybe.
Up next: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
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