A Far-flung Life by M. L. Stedman: ‘Guard your secrets well – that’s my advice. Forget they even exist.’

A life in books | 11.03.2026 15:27
Those of you with long memories might recall M. L. Stedman’s debut, The Light Between Oceans, published in the UK back in 2012. I loved it which made me keen to read her new one, A Far-flung Life. Largely set in the 1950s and ‘60s on a sheep station in Western Australia, it follows the MacBride family, irrevocably changed by a shocking accident in January 1958.