A Far-flung Life

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. But fate isn't finished with them: it comes back in a twist of consequences that will cost one family member their life — and force another to sacrifice theirs for the sake of an innocent child.

Set against the vast, flat expanse of a million-acre sheep station where the weather is a capricious god and isolation is a way of life, A Far-Flung Life follows a handful of souls and the secrets they shield in order to survive. With shimmering prose, delicious wit, and deep human insight, M. L. Stedman — author of the beloved The Light Between Oceans — returns with a hopeful meditation on time, resilience, and the lengths we go to protect what we love.