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Op een ochtend stapt Alice Raikes in Londen op de trein naar Edinburgh, waar haar zussen haar opwachten op het station. Diezelfde avond ligt ze in coma in een ziekenhuis in Londen - na een ongeluk dat misschien geen ongeluk was. Terwijl Alice balanceert op de grens tussen leven en dood, verzamelt haar familie zich om haar bed. Ze wachten en halen herinneringen op, waardoor oude spanningen komen bovendrijven. Langzaam keren ook Alices eigen herinneringen terug: aan haar jeugd en aan haar voorgoed verloren grote liefde.

Op een dag krijgt Iris Lockhart een brief met de mededeling dat haar oudtante ontslagen zal worden uit de psychiatrische inrichting waar ze bijna haar hele leven heeft doorgebracht. Iris is hoogst verbaasd, want ze heeft nog nooit gehoord van deze Esme Lennox, de zus van haar grootmoeder. De enige die meer over Esme zou kunnen vertellen, Iris' grootmoeder Kitty, gaat te veel op in haar eigen herinneringen om Iris' vragen te kunnen beantwoorden. Waarom is Esme haar leven lang opgesloten in een psychiatrische inrichting? En hoe is het mogelijk dat iemand spoorloos verdwijnt uit alle familieverhalen?

Maggie O’Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires struggle with the imposition of social mores. This haunting story explores the seedy past of Victorian asylums, the oppression of family secrets, and the way truth can change everything. 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 Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital - where she has been locked away for over sixty years. Iris’s grandmother Kitty always claimed to be an only child. But Esme’s papers prove she is Kitty’s sister, and Iris can see the shadow of her dead father in Esme’s face. Esme has been labeled harmless - sane enough to coexist with the rest of the world. But Esme’s still basically a stranger, a family member never mentioned by the family, and one who is sure to bring life-altering secrets with her when she leaves the ward. If Iris takes her in, what dangerous truths might she inherit? Maggie O’Farrell’s intricate tale of family secrets, lost lives, and the freedom brought by truth will haunt readers long past its final page.

Op een koude middag in februari vangt Stella een glimp op van een man die ze jaren niet gezien heeft maar direct herkent. Dat denkt ze, althans. Ze vlucht naar Schotland, naar een plek waarvan alleen haar zus Nina het belang kent. Aan de andere kant van de wereld beseft Jake op datzelfde moment dat hij weg moet uit zijn verstikkende relatie. Hij reist naar Schotland. Daar ontmoeten Stella en Jake elkaar, wat hun levens voorgoed verandert. Maar niet voordat Stella haar verleden onder ogen durft te zien.

The new children’s book from multi-award-winning author of Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell, paired once more with Daniela Terrazzini’s stunning illustrations.When Jem and his family move to the countryside, he doesn’t like his new home one bit. It’s an old cottage on the side of a hill, where strange things keep happening: shoes are filled up with conkers, the stairs become tangled in a woollen maze. Jem’s sister Verity is certain it is the work of a “nouka”, an ancient creature from local folklore that lives deep down inside the hill. Jem, however, is adamant that there is no such thing.But this small mythical creature, so attuned to the hearts and minds of others, does exist. And, what’s more, it is determined, through mischief and mayhem, to help Jem reignite the spark within himself once more.

Have you ever woken up suddenly, in the middle of the night, without knowing why? Best-selling and award-winning master storyteller Maggie O'Farrell weaves an extraordinary and compelling modern fairy tale about the bravery of a little girl and the miracle of a snowy day. Sylvie wakes one night, suddenly, without knowing why. Then she sees the most spectacular sight - a pair of wings, enormous in size, made of the softest snow-white feathers imaginable. An angel in her bedroom ... a SNOW angel! He tells her that he is here to look after her, for Sylvie is not as well as she seems... Many months later, as Sylvie recovers from her illness, she longs to see her snow angel again. He saved her life! There is so much she wants to tell him, so much she wants to know! Will he ever come back to her? And how can Sylvie make sure that everyone she loves has their own snow angel, to keep them safe, too?

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARDS. SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BGE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR. A top-ten bestseller, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Maggie O'Farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. 'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet? Her husband Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home?

"Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet. Drawing on her long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, Maggie O'Farrell writes Hamnet as a luminous portrait of a marriage and at its heart the loss of a beloved child."--Publisher description.

"An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists"--