A Far-flung Life

The mesmeric new novel from the author of the award-winning global bestseller,

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS

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'Heart-wrenching and beautifully set. A gorgeous feast of a novel about family, community, love and the lengths we will go to save them all'

RACHEL JOYCE, author of

The Homemade God

'A big, bold story of tragedy and resilience. I was completely swept away'

BONNIE GARMUS, author of

Lessons in Chemistry

'

One of those rare books that fill the soul'

DONAL RYAN, author of

Heart be at Peace

and

The Spinning Heart

'Truly a masterpiece. The kind of book you will remember for the rest of your life, and I love the very bones of it'

JOANNA CANNON, author of

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

'Epic, grand, intimate and aching. I loved it'

MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of

The Paper Palace

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Western Australia, 1958. A truck rumbles along a lonely outback road. A moment's inattention, and in a few muddled seconds the lives of the MacBride family are shattered.

Instead of leaving them to heal, fate comes back for them in a twist of consequences that will cause one of them to lose their life, and another to sacrifice theirs for the sake of an innocent child.

Set in the expanse of a vast and flat landscape, where the weather is a capricious god and a million-acre sheep station is barely a dot on the map,

A Far-flung Life

explores the hearts of a handful of isolated souls and the secrets they shield in order to survive.

Capturing a family, a community, a generation, M L Stedman tells of the many ways humans can do each other wrong and how we move on when things can't be put right. With shimmering prose and a delicious wit, the mysteries of being human are laid bare in this hopeful meditation on time and resilience and the lengths we go to to protect what we love.

*****

Praise for

The Light Between Oceans

:

'An

extraordinary

book...

Unforgettable'

Guardian

'A

moving

tale . . .

prepare to weep'

New York Times

'A

moving

tale. One of this year's

must-reads

'

Stylist Magazine