{"id":150715,"date":"2025-06-02T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150715\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T00:00:12","slug":"prh-acquires-stedmans-a-far-flung-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150715\/","title":{"rendered":"PRH acquires Stedman\u2019s \u2018A Far-flung Life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tMonday, 2 June 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n

Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia fiction publisher Beverley Cousins has acquired ANZ rights to A Far-flung Life by ML Stedman (The Light Between Oceans<\/a>). The novel will be published simultaneously with Doubleday in the UK.<\/p>\n

A Far-flung Life is set in outback Western Australia and follows the MacBride family.\u00a0\u2018A truck rumbles along a lonely outback road. A moment\u2019s inattention, and in a few muddled seconds, the lives of the MacBride family are shattered,\u2019 said the publisher. \u2018But instead of leaving them to heal, fate comes back for them in a twist of consequences that will cause one of them to lose their life and another to sacrifice theirs for the sake of an innocent child.\u2019<\/p>\n

ML Stedman is the author of The Light Between Oceans which won two ABIA Awards, the 2013 Indie Book of the Year<\/a>, and the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award<\/a>. It was published in 45 languages and was adapted into a film of the same name with Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander.<\/p>\n

Cousins said: \u2018Ten years in the writing, A Far-flung Life offers a truly immersive experience, transporting the reader to a sprawling sheep property in Western Australia and into the lives of the MacBride family. As with her debut, The Light Between Oceans, Stedman has written an unforgettable epic novel that is destined to be a global bestseller and an Australian classic.\u2019<\/p>\n

Stedman said: \u2018The wonderful Beverley Cousins and the whole team at PRH ANZ did such a brilliant job of publishing The Light Between Oceans, so I feel incredibly fortunate that they\u2019ll be bringing A Far-flung Life to Australian and New Zealand readers.\u2019<\/p>\n

PRH plans to release\u00a0A Far-flung Life in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Category: Local\u00a0news<\/a> Rights\u00a0and\u00a0acquisitions<\/a> <\/p>\n

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