Maggie O'Farrell

This collection of cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Maggie O'Farrell features an exclusive interview with the author herself.

Covering her 9 novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, and 2 children's books, this is the first full-length study of O'Farrell's work, offering critical explorations from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet and most recent best-selling novel, The Marriage Portrait.

Exploring themes such as grief and sacrifice, longing and belonging, trauma, translation, palimpsestic texts and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic, beyond a new and exclusive interview with O'Farrell, this book features a timeline of her life and works, and suggested further reading.