A Far-flung Life

**THE MESMERIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING GLOBAL BESTSELLER, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS '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 ‘A big, bold story of tragedy and resilience. I was completely swept away’ BONNIE GARMUS ‘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 'Epic, grand, intimate and aching. I loved it’ MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of The Paper Palace ____________ 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