Land

A stunning achievement. Maggie O'Farrell's most ambitious novel yet, and maybe her most moving. I adored it.

Bobby Palmer

Expansive and intimate, this beautiful book swallowed me whole. I loved it, and will miss its characters terribly

Charlotte McConaghy

A work of towering imagination and empathy; a beautifully layered novel, told in lyrical, haunting prose which transforms familiar history into something new and startlingly relevant. To read this novel is to embark on an emotional journey, to lose yourself in the pages of a story that is at once devastating and irrepressibly life affirming. I loved it

Roisín O'Donnell

As visceral as a novel can get

Yael van der Wouden

Land is a vast, darkly magical novel from a masterful writer. Maggie O'Farrell's historical fiction illuminates not only the past, but our own moment in time. A brilliant and powerful novel

Alice Winn

This deep, dense, heartrending novel is the best of Maggie O'Farrell, who is the best of writers, modern and alive, with the detailed brilliance of great nineteenth-century storytellers. All I need as a reader is in Land

Amy Bloom

A stunning and gorgeous epic. . . . O'Farrell paints a devasting yet tender portrait of Irish history

Publishers Weekly, starred review

Land is a hidden grove of a book. Since leaving its pages, the stories hiding in place-names and redacted maps have seemed palpable in my everyday life. I loved the characters, the slowing effect of O'Farrell's prose and her careful splicing of story into history

Amy Jeffs

A visceral and magical story about separation, and our complex relationship with the world beyond words

Rachel Joyce, author of The Homemade God

Beautifully done, with descriptions that are both intricate and locked into character

Scotsman

Evocative and immersive . . . a haunting, beautifully written story of survival and memory

Woman and Home

Sweeping and vast, Land is a captivating story of family and how the land we share carries our stories

Red

Powerfully affecting . . . expert plotting and perspective

Financial Times

Her most far-reaching, ambitious novel to date . . . a story of grief, trauma, resilience and recovery. A story that has such heart . . . With Land, O'Farrell might snag a Booker nomination

Sunday Times

I think that people will hugely love this book. It's a big, sweeping, Irish, multi-generational story. The writing's wonderful. There's magic elements to it. It's a real crowd-pleaser of a book

Good Housekeeping US

This is a rich, irresistible story, as intoxicating as the water Tomás drank in that "unquiet place" amid the trees

Ron Charles

Luminous... astonishingly vivid... fills in with precision and passion a detailed map of nineteenth century Ireland

Irish Times

Land is the book I am always looking for, a saturated, page-turning story with a vivid sense of place and extraordinary people. In Land Maggie O'Farrell tells the truth through the fiction with this exquisite perfection of language, an openness to the unknown mysteries of the world, and her fingers on the pulse of what makes us human. I was laid flat by this wild, urgent, mystical and sure-footed novel, which proves again that Maggie O'Farrell is the best of us.

Virginia Evans, author of The Correspondent