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 allRACHEL JOYCE, author ofThe Homemade God

A big, bold story of tragedy and resilience. I was completely swept awayBONNIE GARMUS, author ofLessons in Chemistry

‘One of those rare books that fill the soul’DONAL RYAN, author ofHeart be at PeaceandThe 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 itJOANNA CANNON, author ofThe Trouble with Goats and Sheep

‘Epic, grand, intimate and aching. I loved itMIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author ofThe Paper Palace

Western Australia, 1958. A truck rumbles along a lonely outback road. A moments 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 Lifeexplores 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 cant 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.