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 all' RACHEL JOYCE
'A big, bold story of tragedy and resilience. I was completely swept away' BONNIE GARMUS
'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
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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, A Far-flung Life explores 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 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 The Light Between Oceans:
'An extraordinary book...Unforgettable' Guardian
'A moving tale . . . prepare to weep' New York Times
'A moving tale. One of this year's must-reads' Stylist Magazine
Rezensionen / Stimmen
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 tragedy and resilience. I was completely swept away. * BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY * Truly a masterpiece. I loved the very bones of it * JOANNA CANNON *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Maße
Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 40 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-6530-8 (9781529965308)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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 voted for by librarians, and shortlisted as an Amazon Rising Star. In Australia, it won the Indie Best Debut and Indie Best Book Awards, and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Literary Society Gold Medal. It also won the Australian Book Industry Awards for Best Newcomer, Best Literary Fiction and Book of the Year. 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.
