There aren't too many themes in novels. Love is probably the most common and it is the theme in this novel. The love between parents and a child and the love between a husband and wife. What would you do for the one you love? Is your happiness more important than that of someone else? Does that question depend on if you love that someone else or if she is a stranger? Lots of thinking can be done after reading this book! Or you can just sit back and enjoy this well-written book. It begins after WWI with Tom who has come back to Australia after four years of fighting. Like most returning soldiers he has plenty of emotional baggage and is looking forward to living the solitary life on an isolated island taking care of a lighthouse. But within a few years he is sharing that life with Isabel whom he met before he began his job. It seems as if they are well-suited to this kind of life. But when Isabel suffers miscarriages she begins to head into a deep depression. Then one evening a boat washes up on shore. In the boat is a dead man, a woman's cardigan and a crying baby. Although Tom knows what he should do, he cannot deny Isabel's need for a baby. They bury the father and name the baby Lucy and she is to be raised as their own. They do not live happily ever after. It's a great read.
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