Book: A Far Flung Life
Author: ML Stedman
Pages: 448
This is my 87th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
When we do something that can't be undone or mended, how do we go on living? How do we find out North Star when there is no right answer? This is a sweeping and epic story of a family, a tragedy, and the aftermath that reverberates for decades. Remote Western Australia, 1958: here for generations, the MacBrides have lives on a vast sheep station, Meredith Downs. It is a million acres, an ocean and 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 shattered. And then, tragedy revisits when a twist of consequences claims the life of one sibling, and leads another to give up evertying 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. The secrets at the heart of this gutting and beautiful story force him to choose between love and duy, sacrifice and happiness. Can a fleeting momen unravel a whole life, mar it indelibly and irrevocably? Can compassion, resilience and forgiveness allow us to come to terms with our human imperfections?
This book was fine. It wasn't really for me. I should have looked at the warnings before I picked it up, because I probably would have skipped it. It starts out strong - the accident, the baby, another unexpected death. Then it just got....blah. It was slow and depressing. Not as good as The Light Between Oceans.
Stars: 3
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