Maggie O’Farrell

Maggie O’Farrell was born in Coleraine in Northern Ireland in 1972, and was raised in Wales and Scotland. Formerly a journalist, working in Hong Kong and later as Deputy Literary Editor of the Independent on Sunday, she is now a novelist.

Her first novel After You’d Gone won international acclaim and a Betty Trask Award; her third novel, The Distance Between Us, won a Somerset Maugham Award. Her latest novel, The Hand That First Held Mine, will be published in 2010.

Maggie O’Farrell is married to the novelist William Sutcliffe, and now lives in Edinburgh with her family.