Maggie O’Farrell is the author 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, The Distance Between Us, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine, Instructions for a Heatwave, This Must Be the Place and The Marriage Portrait, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize. She is also the author of the children’s books Where Snow Angels Go, The Boy Who Lost His Spark and When the Stammer Came to Stay. She lives in Edinburgh.
Maggie O’Farrell is the author 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, The Distance Between Us, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine, Instructions for a Heatwave, This Must Be the Place and The Marriage Portrait, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize. She is also the author of the children’s books Where Snow Angels Go, The Boy Who Lost His Spark and When the Stammer Came to Stay. She lives in Edinburgh.
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