M. L. Stedman has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 25 ratings. The most-rated is The Light Between Oceans.
The Light Between Oceans
Summary
A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. In 1918, after four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes only four times a year and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Three years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel is tending the grave of her newly lost infant when she hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up on shore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the dead man and the infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim the child as their own and name her Lucy, but a rift begins to grow between them. When Lucy is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world…and one of them is desperate to find her lost baby. M.L. Stedman’s extraordinarily compelling characters, still trying to make sense of life in the wake of so much death in the war, are imperfect people seeking to find their north star in a world of incomprehensible complexity.
©2012 Grasshill Communications. (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The light betweeen oceans
Summary
Sie brachen alle Regeln und folgten ihrem Herzen. Was danach passierte, wird das Ihre brechen - 1926, Janus Rock. Auf einer abgelegenen Insel im Westen Australiens arbeitet Tom Sherbourne als Leuchtturmwärter. Mit seiner Frau Isabel führt er ein erfülltes Leben fern des Trubels einer Welt im Umbruch. Nur eines trübt ihr Glück: Ein Kind bleibt ihnen verwehrt. Bis sie eines Morgens am Strand ein Ruderboot entdecken, in dem die Leiche eines Mannes liegt - und ein neugeborenes Baby. Während Tom die Küstenwache alarmieren will, schließt Isabel das kleine Mädchen in die Arme - und für immer in ihr Herz. Gegen Toms Willen nehmen sie das Kind als ihr eigenes an und nennen es Lucy. Zwei Jahre später kehren sie aufs Festland zurück - und müssen erkennen, dass ihre Entscheidung das Leben eines anderen Menschen zerstört hat.
©2013 Limes Verlag (P)2013 Random House Audio, Deutschland