This Must Be The Place
Maggie O'Farrell"A tour de force... her best novel to date, a book that surely confirms her as one of the UK's most assured, accomplished and inventive storytellers." - The Observer
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?
“The scenario is glamourous, the writing is stylish, the globe-trotting almost dizzying, but there’s a satisfying core of untampered feeling as well… juicy and cool, this could be O’Farrell’s U.S. breakthrough book.” - Kirkus Reviews
An irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. Best-selling author Maggie O’Farrell captures an extraordinary marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humour in what Richard Russo calls “her breakout book.”