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Maggie O'Farrell

Author

Bio

Maggie O’Farrell is the author of the #1 Sunday Times (London) bestselling memoir I Am, I Am, I Am and eight novels, including The Distance Between Us, which won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, which won the Costa Novel Award; Instructions for a Heatwave, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award; This Must Be the Place, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award; and Hamnet, winner of the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, the 2020 NBCC Award for Fiction, the 2020 Waterstones’ Book of the Year, and was the Fiction Book of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards. She lives in Edinburgh.

Maggie O'Farrell Books

The Distance Between Us book cover

The Distance Between Us

Maggie O'Farrell
My Lover's Lover book cover

My Lover's Lover

Maggie O'Farrell
After You'd Gone book cover

After You'd Gone

Maggie O'Farrell
The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club book cover

The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club

Maggie O'Farrell
O Caledonia book cover

O Caledonia

Elspeth Barker
Hamnet book cover

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell
I Am, I Am, I Am book cover

I Am, I Am, I Am

Maggie O'Farrell
This Must Be the Place book cover

This Must Be the Place

Maggie O'Farrell
Instructions for a Heatwave book cover

Instructions for a Heatwave

Maggie O'Farrell
The Hand That First Held Mine book cover

The Hand That First Held Mine

Maggie O'Farrell
Best Contemporary Women's Fiction book cover

Best Contemporary Women's Fiction

Elizabeth Benedict
The Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings book cover

The Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox book cover

The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox

Maggie O'Farrell
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