An irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. Best-selling author
Maggie O Farrell captures an extraordinary marriage with insight and
laugh-out-loud humor in what Richard Russo calls her breakout book. Perfect for
readers of “Where d You Go, Bernadette.” 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 pulling a gun on anyone who
ventures up their driveway. Claudette was once the most glamorous and infamous
woman in cinema before she staged her own disappearance and retreated to
blissful seclusion in an Irish farmhouse. But the life Daniel and Claudette have
so carefully constructed is about to be disrupted by an unexpected discovery
about a woman Daniel lost touch with twenty years ago. This revelation will send
him off-course, far away from wife, children, and home. Will his love for
Claudette be enough to bring him back? O Farrell s prose manages to be both
intimate and expansive and keenly perceptive in its insights about the
complexities of marriage. Beautiful and bittersweet, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE will
make O Farrell s longtime fans swoon while prompting new readers to wonder why
they ve only just discovered her. –BookPage I have been a huge fan of Maggie
O Farrell s novels for years. She writes with tremendous clarity and poise and
in THIS MUST BE THE PLACE you are invested in what happens to Daniel and
Claudette from the moment you meet them. A joy to read. –Jane Green
Inventive, moving, and hilarious.I loved it. Rachel Joyce, best-selling author
of"The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" “
Author Biography
MAGGIE O'FARRELL is the author of six previous novels, "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 Costa Novel Award; and"Instructions for a Heatwave, " which was
short-listed for the Costa Novel Award. She lives in Edinburgh.”
Shortlist, 2016 Costa Novel Award