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After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: near fine
The groundbreaking debut novel from Maggie O'Farrell, AFTER YOU'D GONE is a stunning, best-selling story of wrenching love and grief. A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Wa ...Show more
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Seventeen Brushes with Death | Reading Level: very good
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extr ...Show more
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A story of a dysfunctional but deeply loveable family reunited, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE by Maggie O'Farrell already feels like a contemporary classic. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award. It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water come ...Show more
My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: good
When Lily moves into Marcus's flat and plunges headlong into a relationship, she must contend not merely with the disapproval of flatmate Adrian, but with a more intangible, hostile presence. Could it be that Sinead, Marcus's ex, is trying to communicate with her? Paperback (B-Format) First published 20 ...Show more
The Boy Who Lost His Spark by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Classics/Collections
The new children’s book from multi-award-winning author of Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell, paired once more with Daniela Terrazzini’s stunning illustrations. When Jem and his family first move to a small town, he struggles with his new life. The unhappier he grows, the stranger things become … mischief and c ...Show more
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Gripping, insightful and deft, Maggie O'Farrell's third novel is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives. It won the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does. At the ...Show more
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Lexie Sinclair yearns for more than her parents' genteel country life. She makes her way to the city, where she meets a magazine editor, Innes, a man unlike any she has ever imagined. He introduces her to the thrilling world of bohemian postwar London, and Lexie learns to become a reporter, to know art ...Show more
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Contemporary
The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait is a dazzling evocation of the Italian Renaissance in all its beauty and brutality. Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As th ...Show more
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Contemporary
The breathtaking new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Hamnet. Set at the heart of the treacherous political world of the Italian Renaissance, this is the masterful story of a young woman's battle for her very survival, written with all the drama and verve that made HAMNET an international best ...Show more
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX is classic Maggie O'Farrell: a stunning imagining of a life stolen, and reclaimed. Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will ...Show more
This Must be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
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 ...Show more