A Sunday Times top ten bestseller, the dazzling new novel from Costa Novel
Award-winner Maggie O'Farrell THIS MUST BE THE PLACE crosses time zones and
continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. SHORTLISTED FOR
THE SALTIRE SCOTTISH FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE BGE IRISH BOOK AWARDS AND THE
BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARDS. ‘A complex, riveting novel of love and hope
that grips at the heart’ The Sunday Times ‘A tour de force…her best novel
to date, a book that surely confirms her as one of the UK's most assured,
accomplished and inventive storytellers’ Observer
‘Magnificent…perceptive, profound and page-turning in equal measures’
Cathy Rentzenbrink Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New
Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in
California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a
reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their
driveway. He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch
with twenty years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away
from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?
Author Biography
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of seven novels, 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, which was shortlisted for
the 2013 Costa Novel Award, and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. She lives in
Edinburgh.
Shortlist, 2016 Costa Novel Award