Maggie O’Farrell

Maggie O’Farrell is the author of nine previous novels, including Hamnet which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020.  Hamnet has been made into a film and Maggie co-wrote the screenplay with Academy-Award-winning director Chloé Zhao. The film has already won Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes and the audience award at multiple film festivals including Telluride, Toronto and London.  Maggie’s bestselling books include the novels After You’d Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand that First Held Mine and her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am. Her new novel Land will be published by Tinder Press in June 2026.