The novel "Lights Between the Oceans" tells the story of a veteran who took his young wife to a remote Australian island after the end of the First World War to become a lighthouse keeper. The couple, far from the smoke of war, live a peaceful life, and their only regret is that they cannot have children. One day a small boat rushes up from the seashore with a dead man and a baby on board, and the couple decides to break the rules of the lighthouse keeper and take the child back and raise it as their own, but their decision has a series of disastrous consequences...
"Lights Between the Oceans" sounds like a name that hints at a warm ray of light between people, but the opposite is true. World War I veteran Tom was assigned to the frontier, stationed at the lighthouse and patrolled the surrounding seas, and met his lover Isabel, who seemed to be about to start a happy life, but the aftermath was unpredictable.
One stormy night, Tom was alone at the lighthouse, his wife Isabel was in labor, no matter how much his wife cried and tore her heart and lungs, Tom could not take care of it until the fetus was miscarried. Coincidentally, it was not long before the wife who was pregnant with a second child miscarried again. In an instant, the thunderbolt seemed to be about to crush Tom and Isabel, perhaps it was the will of Heaven, and on the surface of the sea came an abandoned baby and the abandoned baby's dead biological father, out of care and longing for the child, the couple accepted the abandoned baby and buried the abandoned baby's biological father, and the life of a little appeasement did not take long before it suddenly changed again, and by chance Tom discovered the mystery of the identity of the abandoned baby, and the seemingly harmonious days came to an abrupt end.
When the abandoned baby grows up, the police department finds Tom and Isabel and asks to return the child in his hand, and the taste of separation is like a knife cut, and no one can understand it. Tom was imprisoned and imprisoned for not being able to find circumstantial evidence to prove his innocence, and the couple went their separate ways from then on until they both grew old more than 20 years later. There are so many unbearable things in life that the Bible says life is like a gust of wind that is fleeting and leaves nothing behind. Life always seems to joke with us, and it all seems to become meaningless.
We often say that there is a group of people who have experienced the hardships of life, persevering, being knocked down again and again, and getting back up again and again. As everyone knows, behind all this strength and beauty, how much vulnerability is hidden!