Maggie O'Farrell

<b>Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction Maggie O'Farrell this collection covers her nine novels her memoir <i>I Am I Am I Am </i>two children's books and features an exclusive interview with the author herself.</b><br/> <br/> The first full-length study of O'Farrell's work this book offers critical explorations from her earliest works to the award-winning <i>Hamnet</i> and most recent best-selling novel <i>The Marriage Portrait.</i><br/> <br/> With a timeline of her life and works as well as suggested further reading the themes explored include grief and sacrifice longing and belonging trauma translation palimpsestic texts and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic.