Maggie O'Farrell, author portrait
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Maggie O'Farrell

MAGGIE O'FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You’d GoneThe Vanishing Act of Esme LennoxThe Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.
Land
The Distance Between Us
After You'd Gone
My Lover's Lover
The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club
Hamnet (Movie Tie-in Edition)
I Am, I Am, I Am
This Must Be the Place
Instructions for a Heatwave

Books

Land
The Distance Between Us
After You'd Gone
My Lover's Lover
The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club
Hamnet (Movie Tie-in Edition)
I Am, I Am, I Am
This Must Be the Place
Instructions for a Heatwave

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