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Maggie O'Farrell

Irish-British novelist

United Kingdom · b. 1972

Born in Northern Ireland, Maggie O’Farrell, 50, went to Cambridge University and then became a journalist. Her first novel, After You’d Gone, won the 2001 Betty Trask award. Subsequent books include the 2010 Costa book award-winning The Hand That First Held Mine, and the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am. Her latest novel is The Marriage Portrait. The stage adaptation of Hamnet, which won the 2020 Women’s prize for fiction, is at the RSC Swan theatre in Stratford from 1 April to 17 June, and at the Garrick theatre in London from 30 September to 6 January 2024. She is married with three children and lives in Edinburgh.

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Question Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought? Money & investment read 195 other answers →

All my clothes are secondhand, but I did buy a pair of new silver Vivienne Westwood shoes to get married in, which I still have.

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