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The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as a lighthouse keeper, half a day's journey from the coast. Tom brings his wife, Isabel. Years later, after several miscarriages and a stillbirth, a boat washes ashore, with a dead man and a living baby.

The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks that is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine). After four harrowing years on the Western Front,... Read Full Overview