Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell is an Irish-British novelist. Her debut novel After You'd Gone received international acclaim and won the Betty Trask Award. Her later novel The Hand That First Held Mine won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award - for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. She appeared in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future. Her memoir I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached number one in the Sunday Times Bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020.