![]() ![]() Did you ever find it a challenge to stick to a character’s truth, even when you may not necessarily agree with their behaviours/actions? However, the narration doesn’t cast judgement and the reader is left to make up their own mind about what they see as right and wrong. In The Light Between Oceans, Tom and Isabel are grappling with a major moral dilemma, and they each come at it from differing moral compass points. For me, what was really extraordinary as I looked back on it was that all the major themes in the book – war, right and wrong, isolation, light and dark, the nature of family, the kindness of strangers – were right there in that opening scene, though I had no idea at the time. As I wrote, a boat washed up, with a dead body and a crying baby, so I had to keep writing to see what happened, and find out who these people were. When I sat down to write one day, I closed my eyes and saw a lighthouse, then gradually a woman, and I knew it was a long time ago, on an island off Western Australia. I just let a picture or phrase or voice come into my mind, and follow where it leads. Thank you! The story emerged out of nowhere, as my stories usually do. Can you start us off by telling us a bit about the book, in particular how the seed of this captivating story began for you? Firstly, congratulations on the huge local and international success of your debut novel, The Light Between Oceans. ![]()
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