Far-flung Life: A Novel - By M.L. Stedman, 1 Each, $20.99
When we do something that cant be undone or mended, how do we go on living? How do we find our North Star when there is no right answer? These are the questions at the center of M. L. Stedmans unforgettable and magisterial new novel, A Far-flung Life. From the author of the beloved and bestselling The Light Between Oceans, this is an epic story of a family, a tragedy, and the aftermath that reverberates for decades.Remote Western Australia, 1958: here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a sheep station, Meredith Downs. It is a million acres of arid land. On an 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 changed. Further tragedy visits and leads another to give up everything 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.A Far-flung Life is a tale about family and belonging, people trying to do their best, and each, for private reasons, seeking shelter from the storm of life.Can compassion, resilience and forgiveness allow us to come to terms with our human imperfections? These are the questions Stedman asks in A Far-flung Life, her moving, uplifting, and luminous new novel about what the heart can endure for the sake of love.
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