![]() “There is something that appeals to the human psyche about lighthouses because of their isolation,” Stedman told The Sydney Morning Herald in March. They are, refreshingly, less about her personality than her novel, the story of a World War I veteran who moves with his wife to a remote island for work as a lighthouse keeper. Go away.” (O.K., so I added the last sentence myself.) Stedman has mostly shunned press interviews as well - but not entirely, and because this is the age of the Internet it’s possible for a determined reader to track down a couple of profiles that ran in her native Australia this spring. ‘The Light Between Oceans’ is her first novel. Stedman was born and raised in Western Australia and now lives in London. ![]() ![]() The book carries no author photograph, and only a brusque biography: “M. Stedman - whose new novel, “The Light Between Oceans,” enters the hardcover fiction list at No. ![]() DARKNESS AND LIGHT: Some writers crave publicity, while the very hint of it makes others curl into a defensive ball like hedgehogs or pill bugs. ![]()
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