After this encounter, Tom and Isabel argue about whether to keep Lucy or give her up to Hannah. Two years later, Tom and Isabel are visited by Hannah Roennfeldt. Isabel is desperate to keep her daughter, but Tom’s conscience leads him to contact Hannah anonymously so she knows that Lucy is alive and well. When this story unfolds, Tom and Isabel face a choice-give Lucy back to her rightful mother or keep her. Her husband Frank had often been mistaken for a German and was attacked by an angry mob who threatened to take their infant daughter Grace from him before he died of a heart attack while paddling away from shore with his baby daughter. She was the victim of anti-German sentiment during the war. Lucy’s mother, Hannah Roennfeldt, is alive and living in Partageuse. Isabel believes that she saved Lucy from potential danger at an orphanage or possibly death if left alone with no one to care for her. Tom frequently thinks about whether they made the right choice by keeping Lucy or not. He agrees because of his wife’s desire for a baby and the townspeople think that Lucy is their biological daughter. She wants to raise her as their own daughter, but he is concerned about taking in a stranger’s child. When a boat carrying a dead man and an infant washes up on shore, Isabel convinces Tom to keep the child. Tom hopes that he will marry Isabel after the war ends, but she has three miscarriages and is depressed and lonely for much of their marriage.

She is bold and fearless, but she lives life by her heart alone. Tom falls in love with a girl named Isabel. He’s emotionally scarred by his experiences in war, so he finds comfort in the simple life of being a lighthouse keeper. In 1918, Tom Sherbourne returns from the First World War and takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock. It’s categorized as historical fiction and won various awards, including the Indie Book Awards’ Book of the Year in 2013.Īll references in this guide are based on the 2012 Scribner edition, accessed through.

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