Maggie O'Farrell

• Jun-2026
• / Literary
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The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Blight.On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluct...

• Dec-2024
• / General Fiction
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The author of Hamnet explores sisterly affection and what it means to rediscover your voice—and yourself—in this illustrated storybook. This is the tale of two sisters . . . who had no idea that everything was about to change. Quiet Bea k...

• Oct-2022
• / General Fiction
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The award-winning author of Hamnet rejoins the illustrator of Where Snow Angels Go for a mischievous tale of ancient magic and modern-day moodiness. Someone here was sad but pretending not to be. . . . Someone -- and this thought made a smile curl up...

• Sep-2022
• / Literary
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From the author of the breakout New York Times best seller Hamnet -- winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award -- an electrifying new novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici. Flore...

• Nov-2020
• / General Fiction
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• Jul-2020
• / Literary
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England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young, alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor -- penniless and bullied by a violent...

• Jul-2016
• / Historical
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Best-selling author Maggie O’Farrell captures a remarkable marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humor.   Daniel Sullivan leads a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a fa...

• Feb-2013
• / Historical
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Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels -- After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of th...

• Apr-2010
• / Literary
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Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and introduces her to...

• Oct-2007
• / General Fiction
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In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend's attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being r...

• May-2003
• / Suspense
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet comes an intense, unnerving and passionate story of betrayal, loss and love, with all the frisson and psychological intensity of Rebecca.When Lily moves into new boyfriend...

• Mar-2001
• / General Fiction
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The stunning, groundbreaking debut novel of wrenching love and grief from the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and National Book Circle Award Winner HamnetAlice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her famil...

• / Romance
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Gripping, insightful, and deft, The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait.On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches si...