Details

Subject(s)

• Married people—Fiction [Browse]
• Foundlings—Fiction [Browse]
• Australia—Fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Domestic fiction [Browse]

Summary note

1926.Tom Sherbourne is a young lighthouse keeper on a remote island off Western Australia. The only inhabitants of Janus Rock, he and his wife, Isabel, live a quiet life, cocooned from the rest of the world. The 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. Only years later do they discover the devastating consequences of the decision they made that day - as the baby's real story unfolds...

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

ISBN

9780857521002

LCCN

^^2012462068

OCLC

773429504

RCP

H - S

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