M. L. Stedman A Far-Flung Life 2026 Transworld Publishers Limited 2026

Synopsis

<p><b>THE MESMERIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING GLOBAL BESTSELLER, <i>THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS</i><br> <br> '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'</b> RACHEL JOYCE<br> <br> <b>'A big, bold story of tragedy and resilience. I was completely swept away'</b> BONNIE GARMUS<br> <br> <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'</b> JOANNA CANNON<br> <br> ____________<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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</i> explores the hearts of a handful of isolated souls and the secrets they shield in order to survive.<br> <br> <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.<br> <br> *****<br> <br> Praise for <i>The Light Between Oceans</i>:</b><br> <br> 'An <b>extraordinary</b> book...<b>Unforgettable'</b> <i>Guardian</i><br> 'A <b>moving</b> tale . . . <b>prepare to weep'</b> <i>New York Times</i><br> 'A <b>moving</b> tale. One of this year's <b>must-reads</b>' <i>Stylist Magazine</i></p>