Far-flung Life

<p><b>The mesmeric new novel from the author of the award-winning global bestseller, <i>THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS ____________ 'Heart-wrenching and beautifully set. A gorgeous feast of a novel… Lue lisää <p><b>The mesmeric new novel from the author of the award-winning global bestseller, <i>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 <i>The Homemade God

<b>'A big, bold story of tragedy and resilience. I was completely swept away' BONNIE GARMUS, author of <i>Lessons in Chemistry

'<b>One of those rare books that fill the soul' DONAL RYAN, author of <i>Heart be at Peace and <i>The Spinning Heart

<b>'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 <i>The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

<b>'Epic, grand, intimate and aching. I loved it' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of <i>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, <i>A Far-flung Life explores the hearts of a handful of isolated souls and the secrets they shield in order to survive.

<b>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.

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Praise for <i>The Light Between Oceans:

'An<b> extraordinary book. .. <b>Unforgettable' <i>Guardian
'A<b> moving tale . . . <b> prepare to weep'<i>New York Times
'A <b>moving tale. One of this year's <b>must-reads' <i>Stylist Magazine