Maggie O’Farrell (born 1972, Coleraine Northern Ireland) is a British author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones’ 25 Authors for the Future. It is possible to identify several common themes in her novels – the relationship between sisters is one, another is loss and the psychological impact of those losses on the lives of her characters.
Books in order of publication:
| After You’d Gone | 2000 |
| My Lover’s Lover | 2002 |
| The Distance Between Us | 2004 |
| The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox | 2006 |
| The Hand That First Held Mine | 2009 |
| Instructions for a Heatwave | 2013 |
| This Must Be the Place | 2016 |
| I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death | 2017 |
| Hamnet | 2020 |
| The Marriage Portrait | 2022 |
Autobiography
| I Am, I Am, I Am | (2017) |
Children’s Books
| Where Snow Angels Go | (2020) |
| The Boy Who Lost His Spark | (2022) |
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