We are thrilled to be bringing Northern Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell to the Sydney Writers’ Festival in 2025.  Maggie’s nine novels have explored disparate themes, from incarceration, madness and treachery to love, bereavement and loss, and together translated into 43 languages around the world. She is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU’D GONE, MY LOVER’S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT.

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