Stedman discusses her debut novel, her world view, and how her background as an attorney grounds. The story begins when a light house keeper and his wife find a life boat containing a live baby and dead man on the shore of their isolated island. The light between oceans is an incredibly moving novel about what happens when good people make bad decisions. Maile meloy, author of both ways is the only way i want it.
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