This Must Be the Place
- Author Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrator Penelope Rawlins, Thomas Judd
- Publisher Headline
- Run Time 14 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life.
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What to expect
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD
A top-ten bestseller, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Maggie O'Farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage.
'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times
A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet?
Her husband Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home?
(P)2016 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Critics Review
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A tour de force, a complex and nuanced story leaping effortlessly across multiple time frames… THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is that rare literary beast, both technically dazzling and deeply moving. It has all the structural and temporal playfulness of a Kate Atkinson novel while retaining the hallmark emotional insight for which O’Farrell has become renowned. It is her best novel to date, a book that surely confirms her as one of the UK’s most assured, accomplished and inventive storytellers
Observer -
A symphony of stories and voices… absolutely gripping… A rare talent to enthral… It will leave you bereft and wanting more
Sunday Times -
Inventive, moving and hilarious. I loved it
Rachel Joyce -
Beautifully executed; a graceful, insightful exploration of a relationship in all its wonders and woes
Mail on Sunday -
Switching seamlessly between decades, destinations and voices, it’s complex in scale, but is carried off with dazzling grace. A rich, engrossing feast of a novel to lose yourself in
Sunday Mirror -
A magnificent novel that is perceptive, profound and page-turning in equal measures. There are few things I look forward to like a Maggie O’Farrell novel and she never disappoints
Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love
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