A Sunday Times top ten bestseller, the dazzling new novel from Costa Novel
Award-winner Maggie O'Farrell THIS MUST BE THE PLACE crosses time zones and
continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. SHORTLISTED FOR
THE SALTIRE SCOTTISH FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE BGE IRISH BOOK AWARDS AND THE
BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARDS. ‘A complex, riveting novel of love and hope
that grips at the heart’ The Sunday Times A reclusive ex-film star living in
the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a
stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so
fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic
career when she had the whole world at her feet? Her husband Daniel, reeling
from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an
exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from
the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be
enough to bring Daniel back home?
Author Biography
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of seven 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
2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, which was shortlisted for
the 2013 Costa Novel Award, and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. She lives in
Edinburgh.
Shortlist, 2016 Costa Novel Award