This Must Be the Place: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet
May 2016 · Hachette UK
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The Sunday Times no. 3 bestselling novel from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
*Over 330,000 copies sold*
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award
'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times
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A reclusive former film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells thinks nothing of firing a gun if strangers get too close to her house. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out on her career at the height of her fame?
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 from home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?
This Must Be The Place crosses continents and time zones, creating a portrait of an extraordinary marriage, the forces that hold it together and the pressures that drive it apart.
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'Moving and hilarious. I loved it' Rachel Joyce
'A tour de force. Dazzling' Observer
'A conjuror's sleight of hand... deft and compelling' Guardian
'Magnificent... perceptive, profound and page-turning in equal measures' Cathy Rentzenbrink
*Over 330,000 copies sold*
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award
'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times
_____
A reclusive former film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells thinks nothing of firing a gun if strangers get too close to her house. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out on her career at the height of her fame?
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 from home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?
This Must Be The Place crosses continents and time zones, creating a portrait of an extraordinary marriage, the forces that hold it together and the pressures that drive it apart.
______
'Moving and hilarious. I loved it' Rachel Joyce
'A tour de force. Dazzling' Observer
'A conjuror's sleight of hand... deft and compelling' Guardian
'Magnificent... perceptive, profound and page-turning in equal measures' Cathy Rentzenbrink
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4.2
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Trish Mills
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March 14, 2017
Brilliantly written. Loved all the characters. My kind of book.
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Elaine Stockings
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July 30, 2016
Excellent!
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Karen Sutton
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June 10, 2023
loved the writing and entwined stories
About the author
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.
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