Maggie O'farrell

Instructions for a Heatwave

by Maggie O'farrell

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The...

My Lover's Lover

by Maggie O'farrell

Maggie O'Farrell is one of England's best young writers. Her first novel, AFTER YOU'D GONE, won a Betty Trask Award and earned her a spot on the "21 great talents for the 21st century" list compiled by the Orange...

The Hand That First Held Mine

Costa Book Award for Best Novel 2010

by Maggie O'farrell

Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself.

Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears...

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

by Maggie O'farrell

In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage-clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt...

The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

by Jenna Blum, Maggie O'farrell & Molly Gloss

Best Contemporary Women’s Fiction: Six Novels includes works by some of the finest novelists of today.  The collection includes the following titles: Almost by Elizabeth Benedict, Those Who Save Us by Jenna...

After You'd Gone

by Maggie O'farrell

Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice...