The Light Between Oceans + Death in the Afternoon

Mar 7

Mar 7 The Light Between Oceans + Death in the Afternoon

In "The Light Between Oceans" by M. L. Stedman, Tom Sherbourne returns home from World War I, meets Isabel, marries her, and starts a new life. They are the sole inhabitants of a tiny island off the coast of Australia and the keeper of the lights of an isolated lighthouse. It is here that Tom and Isabel mean to start a family, but after many failed pregnancies and miscarriages in the sequestered lighthouse, things just do not go as planned. In a combined stroke of luck and misfortune, Tom and Isabel discover a rowboat with a dead man and a living breathing baby. The couple, fresh from a stillbirth, decide to keep this little girl rather then report her as being found. Three years later, while on shore leave, they are thrust back into the rest of the world and so begins the realization that the world is more than their tiny island, that they have been the cause of horrible devastation, and many innocent people are about to have their lives come tumbling down around them. Lots of good people making choices for understandable, possibly even good, reasons but creating a whole lotta unintended consequences along the way. (Published by Random House Australia)

This emotional plot line keeps your heart heaving for every person on every side of the situation. Half the time you just want everything to be okay and half the time you just don’t even want to think about it any more. The cocktail “Death in the Afternoon” is the perfect solution as the absinthe will help put your mind at rest and maybe even make you forget. The opalescent milkiness of this gorgeous cocktail is a beautiful reminder of the vast ocean that is the constant backdrop for this novel.

Death in the Afternoon