Read for free the first chapter of Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, and discover for yourself why this book is garnering so much attention and praise.
‘Inventive, moving and hilarious. I loved it’ Rachel Joyce
‘Destined to be one of the most acclaimed books of 2016’ Hannah Beckerman
‘Magnificent… perceptive, profound and page turning’ 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?
Maggie O’Farrell’s seventh novel is a dazzling, intimate epic about who we leave behind and who we become as we search for our place in the world.
‘Inventive, moving and hilarious. I loved it’ Rachel Joyce
‘Destined to be one of the most acclaimed books of 2016’ Hannah Beckerman
‘Magnificent… perceptive, profound and page turning’ 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?
Maggie O’Farrell’s seventh novel is a dazzling, intimate epic about who we leave behind and who we become as we search for our place in the world.
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