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Australia, families, family secrets, grief, historical fiction, life change events, self-sacrifice, Western Australia
From the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Light Between Oceans comes a breathtaking and epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia—about tragedy, family secrets, and the enduring power of love.
“A big, bold story of tragedy and resilience. I was completely swept away.” —Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
“Stedman returns with another epic redolent of Thomas Hardy—fit with realist grit, relentless family calamity, and a remote Western Australian setting that, like Hardy’s brooding English moors, radiates such beauty and hostility, it’s almost a character in its own right.” —NPR
“The beauty and breadth of the landscape stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it. Stedman describes the everyday elements of station life with graceful accuracy…and lands every blow thanks to her patient accumulation of ordinary life…A Far-Flung Life makes the argument that a family is not defined by bloodline or by the catastrophes visited upon it, but by the daily, dogged work of holding itself together.” —The New York Times Book Review
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