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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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3

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3

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5.0

Years active

2018-2022

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  • 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.

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