Moral dilemmas always intrigue me - in books, not in real life. ;) This book was certainly full of them. If I was Isabel, suffering miscarriage after miscarriage, and then finding a baby with her deceased father come in on a boat, I would have kept the baby too! Isabel was grieving, the baby looked like a "gift from God", they lived at a lighthouse by themselves.... Why not?
Things get a little murkier when we find out about the baby's parents - and why the baby and her father end up in the boat to begin with. How awful to be chased by an angry mob for being German, which he wasn't! I was really angry about that whole scene, which everyone conveniently forgets! So I felt really bad for Hannah, but didn't particularly like her that much. Fortunately, and ironically, Hannah's dad really came through for his granddaughter.
I realized at a certain point that Isabel and Tom really needed to give Lucy back to Hannah, but it was really hard reading about the disastrous relationship between Hannah & Lucy/Grace. Hannah just didn't seem to get what Lucy Grace needed - although I understood her insecurities about it.
What made me angriest was Isabel throwing Tom under the bus!! If she had not set that right, I probably would have thrown the book away! The ending made me especially sad. I just wish that Lucy Grace would have visited Isabel and Tom before Isabel died. And I wish Isabel and Tom could have had a child. Yep, all in all, this was a pretty sad book. It was a good read though.
Wendy's Rating: ****
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