1446 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Maggie O'Farrell at First Parish Church | First Parish Church
presenting Land: A Novel
Harvard Book Store welcomes
Maggie O'Farrell
―award-winning, bestselling author of
Hamnet
and
The Marriage Portrait
―for a discussion of her novel,
Land.
She will be joined in conversation by
Celeste Ng
―#1
New York Times
bestselling author of the novels
Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere,
and
Our Missing Hearts
.
Ticketing
Tickets include admission for one and one hardcover copy of
Land
, pre-stamped by the author with a custom stamp signature.
Additional copies of
Land
will be available for purchase at the event, as well as Maggie O'Farrell previous titles. There will be no signing line or meet and greet at this event. All copies of
Land
will be pre-stamped by the author with a custom stamp signature.
Note: Books bundled with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their book at Harvard Book Store up to 30 days following the event. This offer expires after 30 days. Please note we cannot guarantee signed copies will be available to ticket holders who do not attend the event.
About
Land
The award-winning, bestselling author of
Hamnet
and
The Marriage Portrait
, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.
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 unexpectedly 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 novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization and rebellion. It 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. As spellbinding and varied as the landscape that inspired it,
Land
is, above all, a story of survival, for our times, and for all time.
Bios
Maggie O'Farrell
was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972. Her novels include
Hamnet
(winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction),
The Marriage Portrait, After You’d Gone
,
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
,
The Hand That First Held Mine
(winner of the Costa Novel Award), and
Instructions for a Heatwave
. She has also written a memoir,
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
. She lives in Edinburgh.
Celeste Ng
is the number one
New York Times
bestselling author of the novels
Everything I Never Told You
,
Little Fires Everywhere
, and
Our Missing Hearts
. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.
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