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Maggie O'Farrell


UK flag (b.1972)

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.

Awards: Nibbies (2021), Women's Prize (2020), NBCC (2020), Costa (2010)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical, Children's Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
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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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
2021 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year : Hamnet
2020 Women's Prize For Fiction : Hamnet
2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : Hamnet
2010 Costa Book Award for Best Novel : The Hand That First Held Mine

Award nominations
2023 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Marriage Portrait
2023 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (nominee) : The Marriage Portrait
2021 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : Hamnet
2021 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : Hamnet
2017 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (shortlist) : This Must Be the Place
2016 Costa Book Award for Best Novel (nominee) : This Must Be the Place
2013 Costa Book Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Instructions for a Heatwave
2001 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : After You'd Gone


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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