A Far-flung LifeSet against the vast and timeless landscape of Western Australia, a mesmeric tale of lives blighted by innocent guilt, from the author of the award winning global bestseller, The Light Between Oceans. Western Australia, 1958: here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a remote sheep station, Meredith Downs. A million acres, its an ocean of arid land. On an ordinary day, on a lonely road, under the unending blue sky, patriarch Phil MacBride