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

Thu Jun 25 | 07:00 PM
The Iris Cantor Theatre at NYU, event with Glucksman Ireland House
38 West Houston Street
New York, NY 10012
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Fri Jun 26 | 07:00 PM
Writers on a New England Stage at The Music Hall Theater, in conversation with Rebecca Lavoie
28 Chestnut Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
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Sat Jun 27 | 07:00 PM
Harvard Book Store at First Parish Church, in conversation with Celeste Ng
1446 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Mon Jun 29 | 07:00 PM
St. Louis County Library Clark Family Branch
1640 S Lindbergh Blvd, MO 63131
St. Louis, MO 63131
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Tue Jun 30 | 07:30 PM
Dallas Museum of Art, in conversation with Sarah Damoff
1717 N Harwood St
Dallas, TX 75201
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Wed Jul 01 | 07:00 PM
Books & Books at Coral Gables Congressional Church, in conversation with Sarah Kavanaugh
3010 De Soto Blvd
Coral Gables, FL 33134
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Thu Jul 02
Parnassus Books at Vanderbilt, in conversation with Ariel Lawhon
310 25th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37212
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Books

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

Events

Thu Jun 25 | 07:00 PM
The Iris Cantor Theatre at NYU, event with Glucksman Ireland House
38 West Houston Street
New York, NY 10012
Google Map

Fri Jun 26 | 07:00 PM
Writers on a New England Stage at The Music Hall Theater, in conversation with Rebecca Lavoie
28 Chestnut Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Google Map

Sat Jun 27 | 07:00 PM
Harvard Book Store at First Parish Church, in conversation with Celeste Ng
1446 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Google Map

Mon Jun 29 | 07:00 PM
St. Louis County Library Clark Family Branch
1640 S Lindbergh Blvd, MO 63131
St. Louis, MO 63131
Google Map

Tue Jun 30 | 07:30 PM
Dallas Museum of Art, in conversation with Sarah Damoff
1717 N Harwood St
Dallas, TX 75201
Google Map

Wed Jul 01 | 07:00 PM
Books & Books at Coral Gables Congressional Church, in conversation with Sarah Kavanaugh
3010 De Soto Blvd
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Google Map

Thu Jul 02
Parnassus Books at Vanderbilt, in conversation with Ariel Lawhon
310 25th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37212
Google Map

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