Rose

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“How many of the following trivia questions can you answer correctly? Answers are over the page:- Q1/ What is Janus the god of? Q2/ What is Isabel doing when Tom first sees her? Q3/ What does Isabel do to Tom’s map of Janus Island? Q4/ Apart from a baby and a dead man, what other two objects are in the dinghy that lands on Janus Island? Q5/ What is Lucy doing on the only occasion when Tom tells her off? Q6/ What nationality is Frank and what is his real name? Q7/ Why is Hannah’s father, Septimus, sent alone to Australia when he is just a small boy? Q8/ How often does the store boat visit Janus Island? Q9/ What does Tom’s father enclose in his final letter to his son? Q10/ When Hannah prays in church, whose statue does she sit by? Q11/ Lucy/ Grace goes missing on two occasions. In each instance, where is she eventually found and what is she doing?”
― Kathryn Cope, Study Guide for Book Clubs: The Light Between Oceans

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman