Maggie O’Farrell: ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? You’ll never walk again’
The author on stammering, lying to her hairdresser, and her bad recycling habit
Born in Northern Ireland, Maggie O’Farrell, 50, went to Cambridge University and then became a journalist. Her first novel, After You’d Gone, won the 2001 Betty Trask award. Subsequent books include the 2010 Costa book award-winning The Hand That First Held Mine, and the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am. Her latest novel is The Marriage Portrait. The stage adaptation of Hamnet, which won the 2020 Women’s prize for fiction, is at the RSC Swan theatre in Stratford from 1 April to 17 June, and at the Garrick theatre in London from 30 September to 6 January 2024. She is married with three children and lives in Edinburgh.
When were you happiest?
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
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