The Light Between Oceans

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Discover the sweeping Sunday Times bestselling and prize-winning novel, made into a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, and Rachel Weisz. 
 
NEARLY FIVE MILLION COPIES SOLD 
'An extraordinary book. Unforgettable' Guardian 
'Irresistible . . . a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page' Oprah Magazine 
'A love story that is both persuasive and tender' Sunday Times 
‘A moving tale. One of this year's must-reads’ Stylist Magazine 
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After experiencing the horrors of The Western Front, Tom moves to Janus Island to work as a lighthouse keeper. He hopes that life on the remote island with his wife Izzy will bring him peace following the war. 
The two of them are happy together, although frustrations arise the longer they try for a child that never comes. 
But then, one day, a boat washes up on the shore of their little island. In it, lies a dead man - and a crying baby. 
 
Faced with an impossible decision, Tom and Izzy do what they think is right and follow their hearts. What happens next will break yours. 
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READERS ADORE IT: 
***** 'A beautiful, poignant story' 
***** 'By far, one of the best books I've ever read' 
***** 'A stunning and enjoyable read, one you won't forget' 
 
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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 and shortlisted as an Amazon Rising Star. In Australia, it won the Indie Best Debut and the Indie Best Book awards and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Literary Society Gold Medal. 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.

Discover the sweeping Sunday Times bestselling and prize-winning novel, made into a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, and Rachel Weisz. 
 
NEARLY FIVE MILLION COPIES SOLD 
'An extraordinary book…Unforgettable' Guardian 
'A moving tale . . . prepare to weep' New York Times 
'Irresistible . . . a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page' Oprah Magazine 
'A love story that is both persuasive and tender' Sunday Times 
‘A moving tale. One of this year's must-reads’ Stylist Magazine 
‘Delicate and imaginative . . . beautifully written . . . deserves every single bit of its success.’ Scotsman 
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After experiencing the horrors of The Western Front, Tom moves to Janus Island to work as a lighthouse keeper. He hopes that life on the remote island with his wife Izzy will bring him peace following the war. 
The two of them are happy together, although frustrations arise the longer they try for a child that never comes. 
But then, one day, a boat washes up on the shore of their little island. In it, lies a dead man - and a crying baby. 
 
Faced with an impossible decision, Tom and Izzy do what they think is right and follow their hearts. What happens next will break yours. 
____________________ 
 
READERS ADORE IT: 
***** 'A beautiful, poignant story' 
***** 'By far, one of the best books I've ever read' 
***** 'A stunning and enjoyable read, one you won't forget' 
 
**Cover may vary** 
 
PRE-ORDER M L STEDMAN'S BRAND NEW NOVEL, A FAR-FLUNG LIFE, COMING MARCH 2026

M L Stedman

Utterly glorious. I have so much love for these characters - I felt their regrets, yet just as deeply, Stedman’s compassion. A truly brilliant novel.

Masterful. A remarkable poignant tale

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.

A big, bold story of resilience and hope. I was completely swept away.

BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY

A world, a story, and a cast of characters I truly lost myself in. So much so I slowed down my reading of it, as I never wanted it to end. A Far-flung Life is a rare jewel of a novel and one I will never forget

JENNIE GODFREY, author of THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS

Truly a masterpiece. I loved the very bones of it

Epic, intimate and aching. A novel that carries its secrets in hidden places, burying its wounds in the vast, empty landscape of Western Australia and in the broken hearts of its characters. I loved it.

MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of THE PAPER PALACE

Mesmerising and unforgettable, this sweeping novel aches with life’s impossible choices, thrums with love and pain, and imprints itself on your heart. I loved it.

One of those books that fill the soul. I couldn’t put it down. What an incredible story, as vast and starkly beautiful as the unforgiving terrain of its setting, and filled with light and love.'

Like the heartrending The Light Between Oceans, the MacBrides' story interrogates ideas of right and wrong in specific and complicated cases, and the experience of humans writ small against a vast landscape... Heartbreaking and painfully beautiful, A Far-flung Life will haunt and comfort long past its final page.

This highly anticipated new novel from the author of The Light Between Oceans promises to be just as epic

A gorgeous historical fiction saga about family and belonging, fate and time.

Captivating... Stedman conveys the staggering scale of the sheep station’s isolated sprawl, and it’s impossible to look away... Readers will be transported.

This sweeping saga, told with great heart and tenderness, is a story of broken people working to heal themselves. The many admirers of Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans will find the same blend of sadness and hope in her latest.

This stunning novel tells the story of the MacBride family, torn apart by tragedy, and shows how one single moment of inattention can have ripple effects through the generations.

Tragedy strikes a remote Australian sheep-farming family, with consequences that will ripple through generations... this is a work of intense moral commitment, constantly devoted to the sympathetic exploration of private pain.

A rich Australian epic that binds family tragedy to the landscape

A decades-spanning epic, ten years in the writing, in which the righteous are the bad guys and the transgressors are the innocents. From a kangaroo shooter and former prisoner of Japan with a broken, tender heart, to the MacBride siblings burdened with a corrosive secret, Stedman’s characters could walk among us. A classic.

One of those books that draws you in and makes you think about how you would handle a similar situation – it would make a great book club discussion. Stedman mixes big emotions with beautiful writing to intoxicating effect. There are many gorgeous passages that are best read slowly, so the words can seep into you. This is an epic story about familial loyalty, resilience and forgiving yourself for the mistakes of your past, and it’s one that really stays with you. I’ve already passed A Far-Flung Life on to several people – and I’m sure they won’t be the last.

Exquisite writing. Heartbreaking yet hopeful, it’s a mesmerising meditation on consequences and the power of human connection. We loved it!

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

Worth the wait…a brilliant sophomore novel filled with complicated characters that have set up housekeeping in my memory bank and will stay there forever…I am still reeling …deeply moving

This beautifully-drawn novel reads like a Greek Tragedy set in the Outback, with protagonists of high moral character befallen by misfortune. And you’ll root for the gods/Stedman to give them the grace they deserve

A gorgeous historical fiction saga about family and belonging, fate and time

Awes and transports its readers. Heartbreaking and painfully beautiful, A Far-flung Life will haunt and comfort long past its final page

A beautiful, richly human, attentive novel

I absolutely loved this novel… I found Stedman’s respect for her characters, and the dignity she gives them, as moving as the story in which she sets them. My read of the year so far.

Stedman paints a picture of how we all decide what to remember, what to forget, who to protect and how to overcome things…This gripping novel leaves an impression long after you have read its final pages

An Australian Gone with the Wind. The life created so vividly in Stedman’s masterful novel might be ‘‘far-flung’’, but it’s also terribly familiar and achingly human.

Uplifting, moving, utterly absorbing

A truly great read in the best sense – I was engrossed in it for days. [...] We are dealing with a moving story of guilt, innocence, chance, of ruined lives, of cautious love, and of everything that makes life grand, tragic, wonderful, overwhelming, or sometimes almost unbearable. [...] A great, luminous novel.

THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
**One family, a million arid acres, the greatest story ever told** 
 
 
I have so much love for these characters. Truly brilliant’ FLORENCE KNAPP, author of The Names 
 
'Heart-wrenching' RACHEL JOYCE, author of The Homemade God 
 
'Masterful' GUARDIAN 
 
'I was completely swept away' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry 
 
'Mixes big emotions to intoxicating effect' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, Book of the Month 
 
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Outback Western Australia, 1958. For generations, the MacBrides have lived on a remote sheep station, Meredith Downs. A million arid acres, it’s an ocean of land, where the weather is a capricious god, and time still roams untamed. 
 
One 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 shattered. 
 
As Lorna, their mother, fights her loss to take charge of the farmstead, while Rose her only daughter runs wild, Fate comes for them yet again. 
 
Matt, the youngest MacBride, is plunged into a moral and emotional journey, as he is forced to choose between love and duty, sacrifice and happiness. 
 
A sweeping, heart-wrenching, irresistibly witty novel of family and belonging, of compassion and hope, and a powerful testament to the enduring strength of love. 
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'A world, a story, a cast of characters i lost myself in' JENNIE GODREY, author of The List of Suspicious Things 
 
'Masterful. A remarkable, poignant tale' GUARDIAN 
 
'Intoxicating' Good Housekeeping Book of the Month 
 
‘Truly a masterpiece. The kind of book you will remember for the rest of your life' JOANNA CANNON, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep 
 
'Epic, intimate and aching. I loved it’ MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of The Paper Palace 
 
‘Mesmerising and unforgettable, this sweeping novel aches with life’s impossible choices, thrums with love and pain, and imprints itself on your heart. I loved it.’ JOANNA GLEN, author of ALL MY MOTHERS 
 
'One of those rare books that fill the soul' DONAL RYAN, author of Heart be at Peace and The Spinning Heart

M L Stedman

Praise for A Far-flung Life

Utterly glorious. I have so much love for these characters - I felt their regrets, yet just as deeply, Stedman’s compassion. A truly brilliant novel.

Masterful. A remarkable poignant tale

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.

Utterly glorious. I have so much love for these characters - I felt their regrets, yet just as deeply, Stedman’s compassion. A truly brilliant novel.

Masterful. A remarkable poignant tale

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.

Utterly glorious. I have so much love for these characters - I felt their regrets, yet just as deeply, Stedman’s compassion. A truly brilliant novel.

Masterful. A remarkable poignant tale

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.

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