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This Must Be the Place: The bestselling novel from the prize-winning author of HAMNET
Maggie O'Farrell
Ireland, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
An addictive and unforgettable novel of a marriage in freefall, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2016.
A top-ten bestseller 2016, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Maggie O'Farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. 'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times
A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet?
Her husband Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home?
Praise for This Must Be the Place: The bestselling novel from the prize-winning author of HAMNET
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A tour de force, a complex and nuanced story leaping effortlessly across multiple time frames... THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is that rare literary beast, both technically dazzling and deeply moving - Observer
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A rare talent to enthral... It will leave you bereft and wanting more - The Sunday Times
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Deeply affecting... glamorous, subtle, knowing and stuffed to bursting with feeling - Irish News
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Inventive, moving and hilarious. I loved it
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A conjuror's sleight of hand... deft and compelling - Guardian
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Exceptionally accomplished and emotionally sophisticated - Scotsman
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Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of two books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO and THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK. She lives in Edinburgh.
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