**Attendees should read the entire book and come prepared to discuss.  If you are unable to finish the book but would like to attend the discussion, you can do that as well.**

JOIN US FOR BOOK CLUB:         JULY 14, 2026

Crossroads Restaurant 119 S. Main St. Middleton MA

Susan Gannon, NSWC member and board member, will lead the discussions.  yourgranddesigns@gmail.com

The Light Between Oceans: A Novel 

by M.L. Stedman (Author) 

 Editors' pickBest Literature & Fiction

The captivating and beautiful years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture, now in a gorgeous new package designed for the modern reader.

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.