The Light Between Oceans: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “An extraordinary and heartrending book about good people, tragic decisions, and the beauty found in each of them.”

  — Markus Zusak, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book Thief

• “M. L. Stedman, a spectacularly sure storyteller, swept me to a remote island nearly a century ago, where a lighthouse keeper and his wife make a choice that shatters many lives, including their own. This is a novel in which justice for one character means another’s tragic loss, and we care desperately for both. Reading The Light between Oceans is a total-immersion experience, extraordinarily moving.”

  — Monica Ali, New York Times bestselling author

• “Irresistible…seductive…A high-concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine 

• “M.L. Stedman’s The Light between Oceans is a beautiful novel about isolation and courage in the face of enormous loss. It gets into your heart stealthily, until you stop hoping the characters will make different choices and find you can only watch, transfixed, as every conceivable choice becomes an impossible one. I couldn’t look away from the page and then I couldn’t see it, through tears. It’s a stunning debut.”

  — Maile Meloy, award-winning author

• “This heartbreaking debut from M. L. Stedman is a gem of a book that you’ll have trouble putting down.”

  — Good Housekeeping

• “[Stedman sets] the stage beautifully to allow for a heart-wrenching moral dilemma to play out…Most impressive is the subtle yet profound maturation of Isabel and Tom as characters.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “M. L. Stedman’s vivid characters and gorgeous descriptions of the solitude of Janus Rock and of the unpredictable Australian frontier create a perfect backdrop for the tale of longing, loss, and the overwhelming love for a child that is The Light between Oceans.”

  — Amazon.com, editorial review (Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2012)

• “Haunting…Stedman draws the reader into her emotionally complex story right from the beginning, with lush descriptions of this savage and beautiful landscape, and vivid characters with whom we can readily empathize. Hers is a stunning and memorable debut.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “This fine, suspenseful debut explores desperation, morality, and loss, and considers the damaging ways in which we store our private sorrows, and the consequences of such terrible secrets.”

  — Martha Stewart Whole Living

• “Moral dilemmas don’t come more exquisite than the one around which Australian novelist Stedman constructs her debut.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)