In this episode of Tom’s Book Club, Maggie O’Farrell discusses her new novel Land, a haunting historical novel set in post-Famine Ireland about memory, buried histories, family and survival.

Maggie talks about the delayed train journey that first sparked the idea for the book, the real family history that informed the story, researching cartography and the Ordnance Survey, and writing a novel shaped by folklore, ghosts and the lingering scars of the Great Hunger.

Plus, Maggie reflects on the extraordinary journey of Hamnet from bestselling novel to Oscar-nominated film adaptation, including her experience co-writing the screenplay and attending the Academy Awards.

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