Maggie O'Farrell Books

The novel opens within the domestic world of Stratford, a household that pulses with quiet routine and unspoken longing. The focus is on Agnes—known historically as Anne Hathaway—portrayed here not as a marginal figure but as a woman of immense spiritual perception and independence. Agnes’s children...

From Hamnet

Before she becomes a wife, Agnes lives on the edges of conventional society, shaped by her mother’s wisdom and a legacy of solitary strength. She is attuned to the pulse beneath the visible world—the healing properties of plants, the messages carried by wind and birdcall. Her intuition is not mystic...

From Hamnet

I wanted Robert’s departure to feel both astonishing and inevitable. On the surface, he merely walks down the street for a newspaper. But beneath that routine lies years of unspoken strain. His vanishing is not an act of madness—it is the physical echo of emotional absence. Gretta, his wife, feels i...

From Instructions For A Heatwave

Michael Francis, Monica, and Aoife carry with them the repercussions of separation—not only from one another but from themselves. Each arrives encased in discontent and denial. Michael Francis is a history teacher suffocating under the smallness of his own domestic life. His wife has grown distant, ...

From Instructions For A Heatwave