However, at the heart of this there is one man, who, fed up with witnessing suffering, makes one decision to give someone happiness.
The reader gradually becomes acquainted with the occupants of the small seaside community of Partaguese, unaware of the time bomb that's about to explode. How would a story about a couple and a baby on a remote rock of an island be sustained for 300 plus pages? It's actually sustained rather beautifully and in a way that turns every word into a magnet that you aren't going to skip or forget. I was intrigued and a little worried about the blurb on this, Australian M L Stedman's debut novel. Therefore, one day, when a boat washes up onto Janus bearing a dead man and a crying baby, apparent salvation arrives too. They have a happy marriage in all respects apart from one: they're haunted by their inability to have children. However, he soon learns that there is one part of the world he can't live without – the sassy, beautiful Izzy Graysmark, a local from the nearest port and country town of Partaguese. Internally scarred like many of his generation, he chooses the solitary life of a lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock to escape the world and its conflict. Thomas Sherbourne returns to Australia after World War I. Richard and Judy Summer Reading List 2013
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