Maggie O'Farrell

Writing

Born: 1972-05-27 · Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK

Maggie O'Farrell FRSL (born 1972) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a He…