Maggie O'Farrell writes literary fiction spanning contemporary family stories and historical novels. Hamnet imagines Shakespeare's family following the death of his son, while The Marriage Portrait follows Lucrezia de' Medici in Renaissance Italy and the political marriage that defines her position. Earlier novels include The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, about a woman confined for decades in an institution, and The Hand That First Held Mine, which connects two women across different periods of London life. I Am, I Am, I Am is a memoir structured around seventeen encounters with death. O'Farrell's fiction is character-led and particularly attentive to family, memory, marriage and women's lives, but individual books range from contemporary domestic fiction to historical reconstruction. Hamnet is the most recognisable historical entry, while Esme Lennox suits readers drawn to family secrets and institutional history. Read more Less
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