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Maggie O'Farrell


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Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone, was published to international acclaim, and won a Betty Trask Award.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical, Children's Fiction
 
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Novels
   After You'd Gone (2000)
   My Lover's Lover (2002)
   The Distance Between Us (2004)
   The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006)
   The Hand That First Held Mine (2010)
   Instructions for a Heatwave (2013)
   This Must Be the Place (2016)
   Hamnet (2020)
     aka Hamnet & Judith
   The Marriage Portrait (2022)
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Maggie O'Farrell recommends
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Whale Fall (2024)
Elizabeth O'Connor
"Whale Fall is an astonishingly assured debut that straddles many polarities: love and loss, the familiar and the strange, trust and betrayal, land and sea, life and death. O'Connor has created a beguiling and beguiled narrator in Manod: I loved seeing the world through her eyes, and I didn't want the novel to end"
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Hagstone (2024)
Sinéad Gleeson
"An intelligent, probing novel about isolation, art, and the incompatible desires for both solitude and community."
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North Woods (2023)
Daniel Mason
"North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal. I loved it."

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Books containing stories by Maggie O'Farrell
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Why Willows Weep (2011)
Contemporary Tales from the Woods
edited by
Tracy Chevalier and Simon Prosser

Awards
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (2001) : After You'd Gone
Costa Book Awards Best Novel winner (2010) : The Hand That First Held Mine
Costa Book Awards Best Novel nominee (2013) : Instructions for a Heatwave
Costa Book Awards Best Novel nominee (2016) : This Must Be the Place
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2020) : Hamnet
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel winner (2020) : Hamnet


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