Maggie O'Farrell, a renowned novelist from Northern Ireland, has made a significant impact in the literary world. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone, garnered widespread acclaim and won the prestigious Betty Trask Award. This was followed by another notable achievement, The Hand That First Held Mine, which secured the 2010 Costa Novel Award. O'Farrell's impressive body of work has earned her multiple nominations for the Costa Novel Award, including for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017.
In addition to her fiction writing, O'Farrell has also been recognized for her non-fiction work. Her memoir, I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, rose to the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list, a testament to her skill as a storyteller. Her novel Hamnet has also received widespread acclaim, winning the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020 and the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards.
