https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/grant/rss/search?query=O%27Farrell%2C%20Maggie&searchType=author&view=groupedRSS for NodeTue, 21 Apr 2026 04:52:35 GMTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • Now a major motion picture starring ACADEMY AWARD® winner Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by Chloé Zhao.
The acclaimed author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Marriage Portrait delivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare’s eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play Hamlet.
"Miraculous. . . . Brilliant. . . . A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer—or curse. . . . A richly drawn and intimate portrait of 16th-century English life set against the arrival of one devastating death." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.
A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.]]>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5067286https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5067286Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5067286980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525657613/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4813732https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4813732Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4813732147BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593320624/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=In this astonishing memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet shares the seventeen near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life.
The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life’s myriad dangers.
Here, O’Farrell stiches together these discrete encounters to tell the story of her entire life. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion, she captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.]]>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3390802https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3390802Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3390802980EBOOKSeventeen Brushes with Deathenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525520238/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C17755681https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C17755681Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/17755681981EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781666693928/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C17252645https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C17252645Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/17252645981EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781666679243/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=REESE’S BOOK CLUB DECEMBER PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.
"O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station ... You may know the history, and you may think you know what’s coming, but don’t be so sure." —The Washington Post
Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf.
 
Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now enter an unfamiliar court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to be before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble?
 
As Lucrezia sits in constricting finery for a painting intended to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court’s eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferranese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, the new duchess’s future hangs entirely in the balance.
 
Full of the beauty and emotion with which she illuminated the Shakespearean canvas of Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell turns her talents to Renaissance Italy in an extraordinary portrait of a resilient young woman’s battle for her very survival.
Cover image: © Alinari Archives / Raffaello Bencini / Art Resource, NY]]>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C8770258https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C8770258Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8770258980EAUDIOBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593628096/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14431725https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14431725Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/14431725981EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781664788176/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14373707https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14373707Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/14373707981EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781664788251/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14570769https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14570769Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/14570769981EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781666529883/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14469090https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14469090Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/14469090981EBOOKSeventeen Brushes With Deathporhttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788583181231/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C16545877https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C16545877Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/16545877981EAUDIOBOOKgerhttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9783864844775/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13521762https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13521762Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13521762981EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501919961/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14819049https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14819049Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/14819049981EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780547487274/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C10025900https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C10025900Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10025900981EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982458874/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12177890https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12177890Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12177890981EBOOKSix Novelsenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780547661520/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14799277https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14799277Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/14799277981EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780547350677/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C10027413https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C10027413Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10027413981EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982458867/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2419385https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2419385Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2419385147BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780547330792/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2272341https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2272341Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2272341147BOOK_CDenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781433210495/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.
“I could not stop reading this incredible true story.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)
"O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station...You may know the history, and you may think you know what’s coming, but don’t be so sure." —The Washington Post
Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf.
 
Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now enter an unfamiliar court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to be before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble?
 
As Lucrezia sits in constricting finery for a painting intended to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court’s eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferranese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, the new duchess’s future hangs entirely in the balance.
 
Full of the beauty and emotion with which she illuminated the Shakespearean canvas of Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell turns her talents to Renaissance Italy in an extraordinary portrait of a resilient young woman’s battle for her very survival.]]>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C8772135https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C8772135Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8772135980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593320631/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • Now a major motion picture starring ACADEMY AWARD® winner Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by Chloé Zhao.
The acclaimed author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Marriage Portrait delivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare’s eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play Hamlet.
"Miraculous. . . . Brilliant. . . . A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer—or curse. . . . A richly drawn and intimate portrait of 16th-century English life set against the arrival of one devastating death." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.
A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.]]>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5067417https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5067417Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5067417980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593212158/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C5502778https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C5502778Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5502778147BLURAYenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781329285613/MC.GIF&client=lakep&type=xw12&oclc=&upc=191329285619