Maggie O’Farrell is the author of seven novels, including Instructions for a Heatwave, This Must Be the Place and The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award. Her latest book is the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.
‘It is part angel, part lepidopteran, part Rorschach inkblot.’
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