Maggie O'Farrell, author of four novels, says she can't imagine life without writing in it. She was born in 1972 in Northern Ireland and grew up in Wales and Scotland. She has worked as a journalist, most notably as Deputy Literary Editor of The Independent on Sunday, and was twenty four when she started writing what was to become, After You'd Gone.
After You'd Gone then went on to win a Betty Trask Award and The Distance Between Us won the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award.
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, her fourth novel, was going to be her debut, but she struggled and temporarily abandoned it for After You'd Gone.
Her work has been translated into over 16 languages and in 2007 Waterstones named her as one of the top twenty five authors of the future.
There is an interview on her website where she talks about her writing.
Bibliography
After You'd Gone (2000)
My Lover's Lover (2002)
The Distance Between Us (2004)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006)
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