Maggie O'Farrell Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/maggie-ofarrell/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:21:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Maggie O'Farrell Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/maggie-ofarrell/ 32 32 38398750 Land by Maggie O’Farrell https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/land-by-maggie-ofarrell/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/land-by-maggie-ofarrell/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:03:09 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19707 One family and a country wiped out by famine are the heart and soul of Land, Maggie O’Farrell’s sweeping new novel. The lives of Tomás, Phina, and their children, Liam, Enda, Rose, and Eugene play out on the page with all the verdant vibrancy of the land they love. It’s a decade after the Great […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/land-by-maggie-ofarrell/feed/ 2 19707 Instructions for a Heatwave https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/instructions-for-a-heatwave/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/instructions-for-a-heatwave/#respond Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:13:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18911 In 1976 England was in the midst of a terrible drought and heat wave. It’s an inauspicious and unexpected time for a happily married, retired man to go missing, but Robert does, taking only his keys and his passport. His wife Gretta is left in a frazzled state and his adult children have all been […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/instructions-for-a-heatwave/feed/ 0 18911 The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-marriage-portrait-by-maggie-ofarrell/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-marriage-portrait-by-maggie-ofarrell/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:33:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16969 I adored Maggie O’Farrell’s last novel, Hamnet. She returns, with another novel set in the 1500s, but in Italy this time. The Marriage Portrait is about a young Italian princess and bride, Lucrezia of the famous Medici family, known for its support of key artists and scientists of the Renaissance. The Marriage Portrait is both […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-marriage-portrait-by-maggie-ofarrell/feed/ 2 16969 Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/09/hamnet-a-novel-of-the-plague/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/09/hamnet-a-novel-of-the-plague/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2021 04:11:16 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16077 What never ceases to amaze me is the way one person can take the smallest notation from history, and turn it into a story of staggering depth and beauty that the rest of us would never have even considered. In this case, I’m referring to Maggie O’Farrell and her newest novel, Hamnet, the story of […]

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