{"id":17435,"date":"2024-12-31T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?page_id=17435"},"modified":"2026-01-03T15:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:12:35","slug":"maggie-ofarrell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/have-experienced-them-all\/maggie-ofarrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie O’Farrell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maggie O\u2019Farrell is a British author renowned for her powerful storytelling and emotional depth. The first book of hers I read was The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, which my son had studied at school. I was deeply moved by it and still\n feel the emotions it evoked. In 2020, O\u2019Farrell won the Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction for Hamnet, a novel about Shakespeare\u2019s family. I read it this year while making my way through Ulysses, drawn to Hamnet through Hamlet, and found\n myself equally enchanted by the writing. So I will read them all.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Books read<\/span><\/p>\n

Novels<\/span>\n \n
\n <\/a>\n After You’d Gone<\/a> (2000)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006)<\/span>\n
Instructions for a Heatwave (2013)<\/span>\n
\n Hamnet<\/a> (2020)<\/span><\/p>\n

\ufeffMemoirs<\/span>\n
\n I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death<\/a> (2017)<\/span><\/p>\n

\ufeff<\/span>Children’s books<\/span>\n
\n The Boy Who Lost His Spark<\/a> (2022)<\/span>\n \n
When the Stammer Came to Stay<\/a> (2024)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Books to read<\/span><\/p>\n

Novels<\/span>\n
My Lover’s Lover (2002)\n
The Distance Between Us (2004)\n
The Hand That First Held Mine (2010)\n
This Must Be the Place (2016)\n
The Marriage Portrait (2022)<\/p>\n

Children’s books<\/span>\n
Where Snow Angels Go (2020)\n
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Maggie O\u2019Farrell is a British author renowned for her powerful storytelling and emotional depth. The first book of hers I read was The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, which my son had studied at school. I was deeply moved by it and still feel the emotions it evoked. In 2020, O\u2019Farrell won the Women\u2019s Prize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17436,"parent":3170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17435","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17435"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19847,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17435\/revisions\/19847"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}