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THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

Maggie O'Farrell

The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, heart-warming, tear-jerking, dazzling genius Maggie O’Farrell.

After a lifetime of failed relationships, Daniel Sullivan finally finds the love of his life in the most unlikely place, in the most unlikely person. In a remote corner of Ireland, a flat tyre and a stuttering boy bring Daniel and Claudette together – she, a former international star living in hiding with her young son; he, a man in pieces, overwhelmed by the lost custody battle for his two children in America. Now he and Claudette have two children of their own, and seem to have rescued each other from their shipwrecked lives. But one day, while travelling to the airport with his family, a familiar voice comes on the radio and Daniel is sent reeling. It is his former lover, a gifted academic and critic. It has been 25 years since he last saw her, and only now does he learn that she died very soon after their last meeting.

Obsessed by the finding the truth of that last encounter, Daniel sets out on a journey that will bring him back to his estranged American children, back to the versions of himself that he has cast off and back to the loved ones he felt forced to abandon. In his single-minded attempt to reconcile his past lives, however, he risks making the same mistakes, jeopardising his future with the astonishing woman who has become everything to him.

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Book Published 2016-05-17 by Headline/Tinder Press
Book Published 2016-05-17 by Headline/Tinder Press

Comments

It's her best yet.

I am a huge fan of Maggie O’Farrell and a new book from her is always a massive highlight for me. Delightfully, This Must be the Place is another exceptional novel - her biggest and boldest book so far, and I think the best book she’s written and I am sure it will be a huge, prize–winning, international success.

The scenario is glamourous, the writing is stylish, the globe-trotting almost dizzying, but there’s a satisfying core of untampered emotion as well… juicy and cool, this could be O’Farrell’s U.S. breakthrough book

A tour de force, a complex and nuanced story leaping effortlessly across multiple time frames... THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is that rare literary beast, both technically dazzling and deeply moving. It has all the structural and temporal playfulness of a Kate Atkinson novel while retaining the hallmark emotional insight for which O’Farrell has become renowned. It is her best novel to date, a book that surely confirms her as one of the UK’s most assured, accomplished and inventive storytellers.

Sublime. I loved every page.

It gets better and better until you never want it to end.

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is on place #3 of the Sunday Times Bstseller Chart

Beautifully executed; a graceful, insightful exploration of a relationship in all its wonders and woes.’ – Mail on Sunday, ‘The Best New Fiction’

Isn’t it beautiful? Right up there as one of my favourite of hers.

Maggie O'Farrell has corned the market in beautifully observed, poignant family dramas, and this is her best so far. With its multiple voices, time hops and globe-trotting locations, it's epic but intimate too.

Her most ambitious novel to date, crisscrossing the Atlantic and three decades, and told from multiple perspectives, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is one of this summer’s most anticipated reads

This Must Be The Place will without doubt be one of my books of the year. Completely engrossing, beautifully written, unforgettable characters. It’s her best yet.

O’Farrell spins a magical story in her new novel… There is enough possibility and randomness for three books, yet the story never feels overstuffed, and when it ends, the reader is stunned and grateful, relieved that in the face of all that can go (and have gone) wrong, some things have come right.

Blown away by Maggie O’Farrell’s This MustBeThePlace. Recommend reading in the bath to hide tears.