Maggie O'Farrell

Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Womens Prize for Fiction, Maggie OFarrell, this collection covers her nine novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, two childrens books and features an exclusive interview with the author herself. The first full-length study of OFarrells work, this book offers critical explorations from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet and most recent best-selling novel, The Marriage Portrait. With a timeline of her life and works, as well as suggested further reading, the themes explored include grief and sacrifice, longing and belonging, trauma, translation, palimpsestic texts and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic.