Maggie O'Farrell, Author . Viking $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-03215-0
British writer O'Farrell turns a deceptively simple romantic novel into an engrossing story of psychological suspense. Lily, a young Londoner, meets Marcus, an architect, at an art opening, and they fall for each other. Within a week, she's...
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Maggie O'Farrell, Author . Harcourt $23 (245p) ISBN 978-0-15-101411-8
O'Farrell (After You'd Gone
) delivers an intricate, eloquent novel of family malice, longings and betrayal. Slim, stylish Iris Lockhart runs a dress shop in contemporary Edinburgh when she's not flirting with her stepbrother Alex or...
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Maggie O'Farrell, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $25 (341p) ISBN 978-0-547-33079-2
O’Farrell (The
Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
) interweaves two seemingly unconnected stories—that of Lexie Sinclair, living in post-WWII London, and Elina Vilkuna, a denizen of present-day London. Lexie is a rebellious 21-year-old, and...
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Maggie O'Farrell, Author Viking Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-89448-2
Like a pointillist painting, this fine debut is, from one perspective, formless--short vignettes, told from multiple points of view and in multiple voices, that are somewhat puzzling on their own and apparently have no connection to each other....
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Maggie O'Farrell. Knopf, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-34940-6
When Gretta Riordan's husband, Robert, disappears during the 1976 London heatwave, her three grown children return home for the first time in years. All are dealing with personal crises that inform their relationships with each other and are tied...
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Maggie O'Farrell. Knopf, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-34942-0
O'Farrell (The Vainishing Act of Esme Lennox) spins a magical story in her new novel. On the surface, the story is about the unlikely meeting of Daniel, an American, and Claudette, a French-English former actress; the life they make together; the...
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Maggie O’Farrell. Knopf, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-52022-1
British author O’Farrell (This Must Be the Place) has woven together a stunning collection of vignettes about near-death experiences in her life. She begins with a chilling tale of encountering a lone stranger during a hike up a mountain, who she...
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Maggie O’Farrell. Knopf, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-65760-6
O’Farrell (This Must Be the Place) concocts an outstanding masterpiece of Shakespearean apocrypha in this tale of an unnamed bard’s family living in Stratford-upon-Avon while his star is rising in London. In 1596, 11-year-old Hamnet’s twin sister,...
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Maggie O’Farrell. Knopf, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-32062-4
This lush, provocative historical from National Book Critics Circle Award winner O’Farrell (Hamnet) follows a young woman who is married off at 15 amid the complex world of 16th-century Italian city-states. O’Farrell bases her heroine, Lucrezia de’...
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Maggie O’Farrell, illus. by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini. Candlewick, $18.99 (72p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1937-1
In her debut children’s book, novelist O’Farrell (Hamnet, for adults) adds piquancy to the moment when a blue-tinged angel with enormous feathered wings materializes in a girl’s bedroom by imagining that the angel is just as startled as the girl....
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Maggie O’Farrell, illus. by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini. Walker US, $18.99 (72p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3910-2
At the start of this personal-feeling work from previous collaborators O’Farrell and Terrazzini (Where Snow Angels Go), disorderly, chatty Min lives with measured, tidy sister Bea in the attic of a home also occupied by their parents and three...
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