Maggie O'Farrell Books
About Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell is an Irish-born author, now based in Edinburgh, and the writer of Hamnet, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, both Sunday Times No. 1 bestsellers.
Her novels include After You’d Gone, My Lover’s Lover, and The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, and The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award, as well as Instructions for a Heatwave, This Must Be the Place and The Marriage Portrait, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize.
Maggie O'Farrell's Newest Books
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet is a vivid reimagining of the life of Shakespeare’s family in 16th-century Stratford-upon-Avon. The novel follows Agnes, a gifted and unconventional woman, as she marries a young Latin tutor and the close bond between their children, Hamnet and Judith. When illness strikes the household, the story traces the far-reaching impact of loss, exploring how grief shapes a family and, ultimately, gives rise to one of Shakespeare’s most enduring plays.
