My thoughts
This was an unusual story. While I really enjoyed it for the most part I also found parts to be tedious. I didn’t connect with any of the characters and to me it’s important to do that. Overall though it was an ok book.
This is a heartbreaking story. A woman, Dorothy, loses her child, Moses, to the sea, the love of her life, Joseph, to fate, and her husband, Willian, from the lies. Many secrets are kept and most of the women in the town are brutally cruel to her. Especially Agnes. Agnes was head over heals in love with Joseph and convinced that he would have been hers if not for Dorothy. Oh how she hated Dorothy.
This story is well written and will take your breath away in places. It keeps you wanting to know who this child is. The one found on the beach. The one that looks so much like Moses. The one who can't speak. Who doesn't seem to remember who he is or where he is from. Then the preacher asks Dorothy to care for him for a while. His wife just gave birth and it's a bit much. Even with the help they have. At first Dorothy is very apprehensive about it. She doesn't want to be taken back to that time. But she agrees and from there she finds her way. Or does she?
Dorothy and Joseph should have been together. They should have made a life together. They should have had years of happiness. And no one really deserved the abuse that Agness ultimately ended up with. Until she grew tired of it.
Thank you #NetGalley, #Simon&Schuster for this ARC.
3.5 stars rounded up to 4.
About
The Light Between Oceans meets The Snow Child in this novel set in a Scottish village in the weeks after a young boy mysteriously washes up on shore, causing the buried secrets of the insular community to come to light and rekindling an old love story.
It’s 1900 and Skerry, a small Scottish fishing village, is destined for an unyielding winter. During a storm, a young boy washes up on the shore. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy’s son, lost to the sea at the same age many years before, his body never found.
The village is soon snowed in, and Dorothy agrees to look after the child until they can uncover the mystery of his origins. But over time, the lines between reality and desperate hope start to blur as the boy reminds Dorothy more and more of her own lost child.
The boy’s arrival also finally forces Dorothy to face the truth about her brief but passionate love affair with Joseph, the fisherman who found the boy on the shore and who has been the subject of whispers connecting him to the drowning of Dorothy’s son years earlier.
As the past rises to meet the present, long-buried secrets are unearthed within this tight-knit community, and the child’s arrival becomes a catalyst for something far greater than any of them could imagine.
It’s 1900 and Skerry, a small Scottish fishing village, is destined for an unyielding winter. During a storm, a young boy washes up on the shore. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy’s son, lost to the sea at the same age many years before, his body never found.
The village is soon snowed in, and Dorothy agrees to look after the child until they can uncover the mystery of his origins. But over time, the lines between reality and desperate hope start to blur as the boy reminds Dorothy more and more of her own lost child.
The boy’s arrival also finally forces Dorothy to face the truth about her brief but passionate love affair with Joseph, the fisherman who found the boy on the shore and who has been the subject of whispers connecting him to the drowning of Dorothy’s son years earlier.
As the past rises to meet the present, long-buried secrets are unearthed within this tight-knit community, and the child’s arrival becomes a catalyst for something far greater than any of them could imagine.
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