Maggie O’Farrell

Dec 20, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Michael Woodson |Maggie O’Farrell |Elena Ferrante

Another year is nearly behind us—which is both a shock and a relief. The last few weeks of December are always a restless, busy time, but also it’s a time for reflection.

Nov 20, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Emily Bearn |Maggie O’Farrell

When the Stammer Came to Stay is O’Farrell’s third children’s book Credit: Andrew Crowley In her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am (2017), the novelist Maggie O’Farrell writes about growing up with a stammer, which she describes as “the single most defining experience of my life.” When the Stammer Came to Stay – O’Farrell’s third children’s book – is an attempt to convey that experience to younger readers through the story of two sisters, Bea and Min. The story opens on a note of domestic lyricism. The...

Jul 26, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Maggie O’Farrell

You might have read Maggie O’Farrell’s The Distance Between Us when it was first published in 2013. This recent paperback edition from Vintage Books is set to capture those who’ve lately come to O’Farrell after an introduction to her via the bestselling historical-fiction novels Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. Those newbies might be surprised to find that Distance, like a large portion of the O’Farrell oeuvre, is a contemporary novel.

Jun 30, 2024 | inkl.com | Maggie O’Farrell

Ukraine’s Factor Druk printing house, after being destroyed by a Russian missile in May. Photograph: Jedrzej Nowicki/the Guardian Olena Ninadovska was inside Ukraine’s biggest printing house when the Russian missile hit. She was working in the binding department. It was 10.20am. Two colleagues – Tetaina Khrapina and Olha Kurasova – stood next to her. The women were operating a row of book-sewing machines. Another employee, Sveta Arestova, had just stepped away to take a telephone call.

Jan 4, 2024 | churchtimes.co.uk | Maggie O’Farrell

CHARLOTTE SALOMON was a German Jewish artist, whose vivid, expressive paintings convey a feeling of hopeful vitality, although she created them under Nazi rule. Born in Berlin in 1917, Charlotte was gassed in Auschwitz in 1943, when she was pregnant. The French novelist David Foenkinos spent eight years writing this intensely powerful slender novel about her short life.