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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).

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

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.