List of Books by Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include The Marriage Portrait, 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 has written two books for children, Where Snow Angels Go and The Boy Who Lost His Spark. She lives in Edinburgh.

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With vivid detail and elegantly weaved prose, Maggie O’Farrell builds deeply human characters and richly layered settings. Capturing anything from love and grief to scents and textures, her novels like This Must Be the Place and The Hand that First Held Mine bring the ordinary to life with vibrant detail. Her moving historical tale, Hamnet has been adapted into a major motion picture that has been nominated for multiple Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards.