In a quiet Edinburgh garden studio, novelist Maggie O'Farrell has turned a family discovery — a great-great-grandfather who mapped Ireland for the British during the Great Famine — into her most politically charged work yet. Her new novel Land arrives in June 2026, tracing the devastation of a catastrophe that killed over a million people through the intimate lens of a single plot of land and the man compelled to redraw a country hollowed out by colonial indifference. It is a book about erasure and memory, written by a woman who has always understood what it means to carry a ghost self alongsi
Maggie O'Farrell on Irish famine epic 'Land' and keeping her Baftas basement-bound
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