Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL (born 27 May 1972) is a Northern Irish/British novelist. Her internationally acclaimed debut novel, After You'd Gone won the Betty Trask Award. A later novel, The Hand That First Held Mine, won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She ha
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Maggie O'Farrell FRSL (born 27 May 1972) is a Northern Irish/British novelist. Her internationally acclaimed debut novel, After You'd Gone won the Betty Trask Award. A later novel, The Hand That First Held Mine, won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award – for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. She appeared in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future. Her memoir I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020 and the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards.
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