The Fisherman's Gift

By: Julia R Kelly

Narrated by: Bobby Rainsbury

The Light Between Oceans meets The Snow Child in this novel set in a Scottish village in the weeks after a young boy mysteriously washes up on shore, causing the buried secrets of the insular community to come to light and rekindling an old love story.

“Breathtaking. An exquisitely written, pitch-perfect look at love and shame, what is lost and what is found.” —Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon

It’s 1900 and Skerry, a small Scottish fishing village, is destined for an unyielding winter. During a storm, a young boy washes up on the shore. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy’s son, lost to the sea at the same age many years before, his body never found.

The village is soon snowed in, and Dorothy agrees to look after the child until they can uncover the mystery of his origins. But over time, the lines between reality and desperate hope start to blur as the boy reminds Dorothy more and more of her own lost child.

The boy’s arrival also finally forces Dorothy to face the truth about her brief but passionate love affair with Joseph, the fisherman who found the boy on the shore and who has been the subject of whispers connecting him to the drowning of Dorothy’s son years earlier.

As the past rises to meet the present, long-buried secrets are unearthed within this tight-knit community, and the child’s arrival becomes a catalyst for something far greater than any of them could imagine.

Beautiful Story

Loved the character development, emotional storyline and the “then and now” way of telling the story.

Beautifully Written

It’s a reminder, you never know what’s going on with someone…if you don’t ask.

Fabulous story and wonderful narrating

I loved story and the exquisite narration -I highly recommend! It is captivating. I looked forward to every listen.

Enjoyed

This was an unusual story. While I really enjoyed it for the most part I also found parts to be tedious. I didn’t connect with any of the characters and to me it’s important to do that. Overall though it was an ok book.
The narrator did splendidly and kept the story moving at a fairly smooth pace.
I would recommend this book/audio to people I know. It’s well worth reading and listening to.

The combination of the story and the narrator was very moving.

Sometimes I was frustrated that the star crossed lover was dragged sour a bit too much and I would have liked to know what happened to the characters beyond the epilogue just a bit. Very moving about loss and survival.