Maggie O’Farrell – The travels of Mary Loosemore

Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell

Wonderful. Just wonderful.

The best book I’ve read for months. Years, even.

I Am I Am I Am – Maggie O’Farrell

Reading Maggie O’Farrell’s “seventeen brushes with death”, and, in the closing chapter, one of her daughter’s, I am all the more amazed at the novels – the wonderful novels – she’s written.

Astounding. Inspiring.

Author’s page: I Am I Am I Am – Maggie O’Farrell

This Must Be The Place – Maggie O’Farrell

Wonderful.

As Maggie O’Farrell always is.

Never be deterred by the blurb.

Author page: This Must Be The Place – Maggie O’Farrell

Instructions for a Heatwave – Maggie O’Farrell

Not as speedy a read ad the date might suggest – I got distracted by A Journey to Nowhere, more in the mood for some foreign travel rather than travelling back in time to 1976.

But having completed my diversion into Courland, I returned to Instructions for a Heatwave and found Maggie O’Farrell on her usual excellent form, following the London-Irish Riordan family through a tough few days during the sweltering summer of ’76. I particularly liked her description of The Imaginary People In The Kitchen which comes after the end of the novel proper, and which explains its origins.

Publisher page: Instructions for a Heatwave – Maggie O’Farrell

The Hand That First Held Mine – Maggie O’Farrell

Maggie O’Farrell on motherhood, love and family relationships. Parallel stories of 60s blue stocking journalist Lexie and 21st century Finnish artist Elina, their husbands and lovers and children. With a bit of mystery thrown in. Read in one sitting in my marathon reading weekend.

Amazon.co.uk link: The Hand That First Held Mine – Maggie O’Farrell