A Far-flung Life
Novinka
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. The long-awaited, breath-taking new novel from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans. Prepare to be transported to the vast Australian outback, where a family is bound by the secrets that they must shield in order to live…
Outback Western Australia, 1958.
For generations, the MacBrides have lived on a remote sheep station, Meredith Downs. A million arid acres, it’s an ocean of land, where the weather is a capricious god, and time still roams untamed.
One ordinary day, on a lonely road, under the unending blue sky, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds the lives of the entire MacBride family are shattered.
Instead of leaving wounds to heal, Fate comes for them yet again, 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.
Matt, the youngest MacBride, is plunged into a moral and emotional journey for which there is no map, no guide, as he is forced to choose between love and duty, sacrifice and happiness.
A sweeping, heart-wrenching novel of family and belonging, of compassion and hope and a powerful testament to the enduring strength of love.
Review Utterly glorious. I have so much love for these characters - I felt their regrets, yet just as deeply, Stedman’s compassion. A truly brilliant novel. ― FLORENCE KNAPP, author of THE NAMES
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 resilience and hope. I was completely swept away. ― BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
A world, a story, and a cast of characters I truly lost myself in. So much so I slowed down my reading of it, as I never wanted it to end. A Far-flung Life is a rare jewel of a novel and one I will never forget ― JENNIE GODFREY, author of THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS
Truly a masterpiece. I loved the very bones of it ― JOANNA CANNON
Epic, intimate and aching. A novel that carries its secrets in hidden places, burying its wounds in the vast, empty landscape of Western Australia and in the broken hearts of its characters. I loved it. ― MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of THE PAPER PALACE
Mesmerising and unforgettable, this sweeping novel aches with life’s impossible choices, thrums with love and pain, and imprints itself on your heart. I loved it. ― JOANNA GLEN, author of ALL MY MOTHERS
One of those books that fill the soul. I couldn’t put it down. What an incredible story, as vast and starkly beautiful as the unforgiving terrain of its setting, and filled with light and love.' ― DONAL RYAN, author of HEART, BE AT PEACE
Like the heartrending The Light Between Oceans, the MacBrides' story interrogates ideas of right and wrong in specific and complicated cases, and the experience of humans writ small against a vast landscape... Heartbreaking and painfully beautiful, A Far-flung Life will haunt and comfort long past its final page. ― SHELF AWARENESS
This highly anticipated new novel from the author of The Light Between Oceans promises to be just as epic ― PRIMA About the Author M L Stedman was born and raised in Western Australia and now lives in London. Her first novel, The Light Between Oceans, was a Sunday Times, New York Times and international bestseller and won the Goodreads Choice Best Historical Novel Award and the HWA Goldsboro Crown Debut. It was also longlisted for the Women’s Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin literary award and shortlisted as an Amazon Rising Star. In Australia, it won the Indie Best Debut and the Indie Best Book awards and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Literary Society Gold Medal. The Light Between Oceans has been published in around forty-five languages and has sold nearly five million copies worldwide. It was made into a Dreamworks film starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, produced by Heyday Films. A Far-flung Life is M L Stedman’s second novel, to be published worldwide.
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