M.L. Stedman

M. L. Stedman was born and raised in Western Australia and lives in London, where she worked as a lawyer before turning to fiction in the late 1990s. She studied creative writing part-time at the University of London and published early short fiction and novellas before her first novel. Her debut, The Light Between Oceans (2012), was published by Random House Australia and adapted for film in 2016. Her second novel, A Far-flung Life, followed in March 2026. She rarely discusses her private life publicly.