M L Stedman
Author
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Richard and Judy summer bookclub read 2013, Goodreads category winner, and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013, stunning story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who face a life-changing moral dilemma. A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper's island. It holds a dead man - and a crying baby. The only two islanders, Tom and his wife Izzy, are about to make a devastating decision. They break the rules and follow their...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Ent
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Derek Cianfrance writes and directs this drama adapted from the novel by M.L. Stedman. Michael Fassbender plays Australian Tom Sherbourne who returns home after fighting in World War I. He and his wife Isobel (Alicia Vikander) move to a remote lighthouse where they live in solitude for years. Their inability to conceive a child places a terrible strain on their relationship. When one day a baby washes up near the lighthouse in a boat they decide to...