![]() ![]() They see their friends Ralph and Bluey every three months, and their parents once in three years. They love each other and they settle down in a rhythmic if the slow routine of life on an island where there is no other human – only the sea, the house and them. In this town is the feisty Isabel Graysmark, who falls for Tom and follows him, dutifully, to the lonely world of light keeping. These are families who have lost sons in the war and they grieve but life goes on for them. In the little town, where everyone knows everyone, where the police do have not much work, where “Families gather, safe and whole” at the end of each new day. Now, as a light-keeper, he is passing Partageuse for his assignment to Janus Rock. ![]() ![]() He is humbled by the years and years of death he has seen. Tom Sherbourne has just returned from the war and is overwhelmed that he has managed to not lose a single limb. ![]() Stedman’s debut work would take me to a world of despair and love, separation and longing and bring tears, oh so many tears forth. If that is not possible, please use the links on the page and support us. We encourage you to buy books from a local bookstore. It’s a big book and I have lugged it around for far too long. It lies in my bag for two days before I open it on a bus journey to college. As a habit, I don’t read about the book before I’ve read it, as far as I can help it. I pick up a book, as part of a reading challenge. ![]()
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