Maggie O’Farrell (1972) is a Northern Irish novelist.

Born in Northern Ireland, and raised in Wales and Scotland, Maggie studied English at Cambridge. She has worked as a journalist and taught creative writing. 

Awards

• Winner of the Costa Book Awards (Novel, 2010) for The Hand That First Held Mine
• Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards (Novel, 2013) for Instructions for a Heatwave

Books

Novels

• After You’d Gone (2000)
• My Lover’s Lover (2002)
• The Distance Between Us (2004)
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2007)
• The Hand That First Held Mine (2010)
• Instructions for a Heatwave (2013)
• This Must Be the Place (2016)

Nonfiction

• I Am, I Am, I Am (2017)