Hey Willow! I agree, both on not putting it down and on discussing it. Please post back here if you get to go hear M. L. Stedman.

What surprised me the most about the book was how simple the structure was and yet how riveting. After we have the snippet of what’s to come, Stedman doesn’t keep the power plays coming but basically starts at the beginning–Tom getting the lighthouse job, why this particular lighthouse, and then Tom meeting Isabel…

We can continue discussing it here or feel free to email me.

I couldn’t put it down in every free moment this weekend and finished it last night. Wish we could discuss in a book group or something! Am fascinated by M.L. Stedman’s biography too…hoping to go see her read when she’s in San Francisco next week.

I’m so glad you like it too!

I am now reading The Light Between Oceans. So good!!

Thanks, Willow. And yes, I have some inexplicable connection to these little cottages that include only the necessities–not even a microwave, tv, or coffeemaker… And that’s not usually my kind of lodging : ) But maybe that’s the explanation. No other place is life this simple.

How fun!

Welcome to Catching Days, mulledvine. And thanks so much for leaving a comment. These cottages are a wonderful place to write in. Right on the water, no TV, no microwave, very little furniture, no “things.” Spare, spare, spare–lots of room for imagination.

I’m so glad, Elisabeth. And I know what you mean about missing water so much that your veins ache.

Darrelyn, one of these days…maybe we can both be alone at the cottages together.