Maggie O'Farrell
The writer Maggie O'Farrell speaks to Take Four Books about her latest novel, Land, and, together with presenter James Crawford, they explore its connections to three other books.
The bestselling author of Hamnet returns with her tenth novel - Land - which is a soaring history set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Famine.
Maggie has sold more than eight million books worldwide and is translated into 44 different languages. She won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020.
For her three influences Maggie chose: Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea from 2002; Marie Heaney’s Over Nine Waves from 1994, which is a retelling of many of the Irish myths; and the non-fiction book, Map Of A Nation, by Rachel Hewitt from 2010.
Producer: Dominic Howell
Editor: Gillian Wheelan
This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.
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