Author
Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell is the Northern Irish novelist behind Hamnet (2020, Women's Prize), The Marriage Portrait (2022), This Must Be the Place (2016), and the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am (2017). Hamnet is the canonical contemporary historical novel about Shakespeare's family and one of the most celebrated literary novels of the 2020s.
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Years active
2018-2022
Reviewed
Our reviews of Maggie O'Farrell's work
The Marriage Portrait
by Maggie O'Farrell
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell 2022 review. Lucrezia di Cosimo de' Medici recognizes that her husband, the Duke of Ferrara, intends to kill her. O'Farrell's Hamnet follow-up.
I Am, I Am, I Am
by Maggie O'Farrell
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell 2018 review. A memoir told through seventeen brushes with death. O'Farrell's structural pre-Hamnet memoir and one of the canonical contemporary British memoirs.
Hamnet
by Maggie O'Farrell
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 2020 review. The death of William Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son and the four years before Hamlet is written. The Women's Prize winning novel about marriage, grief, and the play that came out of it.
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What we have said about Maggie O'Farrell
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell 2022 review. Lucrezia di Cosimo de' Medici recognizes that her husband, the Duke of Ferrara, intends to kill her. O'Farrell's Hamnet follow-up.
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell 2018 review. A memoir told through seventeen brushes with death. O'Farrell's structural pre-Hamnet memoir and one of the canonical contemporary British memoirs.
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 2020 review. The death of William Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son and the four years before Hamlet is written. The Women's Prize winning novel about marriage, grief, and the play that came out of it.