Maggie O'Farrell Maps Grief Onto Irish Soil
Maggie O'Farrell's Land explores grief, memory and survival as a family tries to rebuild on Irish soil. Literary readers will be drawn to its emotional precision, elemental setting and the quiet drama of making a home after loss.
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Maggie O'Farrell Maps Grief Onto Irish Soil
Maggie O'Farrell's Land explores grief, memory and survival as a family tries to rebuild on Irish soil. Literary readers will be drawn to its emotional precision, elemental setting and the quiet drama of making a home after loss.
- Book Synopsis
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'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow'
A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy.
'A heart-bursting story of resilience and love' Louise Kennedy
'Haunting and elemental' Ferdia Lennon
'Wondrous and magisterial' Kamila Shamsie
'Breathtaking' Daniel Mason
'A work of towering imagination and empathy' Roisìn O'Donnell
'As visceral as a novel can get' Yael van der Wouden
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland.
The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.
The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father.
What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home?
Land is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.
Ideal for readers who…
- Enjoy Irish historical fiction set in the aftermath of the Great Hunger.
- Read Maggie O’Farrell for emotionally rich stories of family, memory and loss.
- Are drawn to novels where landscape, history and grief shape the characters’ lives.
- Want a literary paperback about the Ordnance Survey, survival and home.
- Like atmospheric fiction with ancient woodland, persistent ghosts and buried histories.
- About The Author
- Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781472289094
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Tinder Press, (02 June 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 448
- Weight
- 660 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 232 x 152 x 36 mm
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