Maggie O’Farrell, the award-winning author of Hamnet, returns with Land, a soaring historical novel about Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam. They are mapping the whole of Ireland, an onerous task in the wake of The Great Hunger. Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father and how he, at only 10 years old, is going to finish the mapping and get them both home. As spellbinding and varied as the landscape that inspired it, Land is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization and rebellion, and, above all, enduring survival.
Maggie O’Farrell is the bestselling author of several novels, including The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet. She is the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and several Costa Book Awards.
Due to an injury, Maggie O'Farrell will use a custom stamp in lieu of signing books. She looks forward to meeting guests in the post-event "stamping" line.
