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This Must Be the Place: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Ireland, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Family & relationships
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- Paperback Jul 29, 2025 | 9781035430116 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- Paperback May 30, 2017 | 9780755358816 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 19, 2016 | 9781472230300 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 17, 2016 | 9781472230317 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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Tinder Press
- Paperback Jul 29, 2025 | 9781035430116 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- Paperback May 30, 2017 | 9780755358816 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 19, 2016 | 9781472230300 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 17, 2016 | 9781472230317 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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Tinder Press
- Paperback Jul 29, 2025 | 9781035430116 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- Paperback May 30, 2017 | 9780755358816 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 19, 2016 | 9781472230300 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 17, 2016 | 9781472230317 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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Tinder Press
- Paperback Jul 29, 2025 | 9781035430116 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- Paperback May 30, 2017 | 9780755358816 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 19, 2016 | 9781472230300 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 17, 2016 | 9781472230317 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT - An addictive and unforgettable story about a marriage in freefall
The Sunday Times no. 3 bestselling novel from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
*Over 330,000 copies sold*
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times
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A reclusive former film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells thinks nothing of firing a gun if strangers get too close to her house. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out on her career at the height of her fame?
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 from home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?
This Must Be The Place crosses continents and time zones, creating a portrait of an extraordinary marriage, the forces that hold it together and the pressures that drive it apart.
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'Moving and hilarious. I loved it' Rachel Joyce
'A tour de force. Dazzling' Observer
'A conjuror's sleight of hand... deft and compelling' Guardian
'Magnificent... perceptive, profound and page-turning in equal measures' Cathy Rentzenbrink
Praise for This Must Be the Place: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the 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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A beautiful, ambitious triumph - Red
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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 three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.
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