Maggie O’Farrel’s (author of Hamnet) novel Land is about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization, and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. As […]
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Instructions for a Heatwave, Maggie O’Farrell
The stunning new novel from Costa Award winning novelist Maggie O’Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976. It’s July 1976. In London, it hasn’t rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his […]
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