A windswept historical novel about land, memory, family, and the histories that refuse to stay buried.
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait comes Land, Maggie O’Farrell’s sweeping new novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.
Rent new hardcover on Trove: $12.80 - Each rental copy can be rented for 30 days. If you love the book and decide to keep it, the remaining balance applies. More information below.
Buy new hardcover on Trove: $32.00
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About the book:
In 1865 Ireland, Tomás and his young son Liam are helping map the country for the great Ordnance Survey project. Their work takes them across a windswept Atlantic peninsula still marked by the devastation of the Great Hunger.
Tomás is determined that his maps will do more than record roads, fields, and boundaries. He wants them to preserve the memory of what happened to the land and the people who were lost.
But when an unsettling encounter in a copse sends Tomás off course, something inside him begins to fracture. Liam, only ten years old, must face his father’s sudden change and find a way to complete the work that may get them both home.
Land is a novel about family, survival, colonization, memory, and the stories landscapes hold long after people try to forget them. Rich with ancient woodland, buried treasure, ghosts, rebellion, and a loyal dog, it is historical fiction with the force of myth.
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This book is for you if:
You loved Hamnet or The Marriage Portrait.
You are drawn to stories about Ireland, family history, colonization, memory, and survival.
You like literary fiction that feels atmospheric, emotional, and deeply rooted in place.
You enjoy books that blend historical drama, mystery, folklore, and emotional depth.
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About the author:
Maggie O’Farrell is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait, After You’d Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine, and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death.
Her novel Hamnet won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, while The Hand That First Held Mine won the Costa Novel Award. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, O’Farrell now lives in Edinburgh.
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The reviews are in! Readers are calling it elemental, haunting, and unforgettable:
Early readers describe Land as a devastating and beautifully written story of family, memory, and the question of who has the right to land.
Booksellers are praising O’Farrell’s ability to turn mapping into something larger: a mix of science, storytelling, mathematics, artistry, and history.
Readers are calling the novel rich with family drama, mystery, magic, and a deep sense of place.
Several early reviewers describe the landscape itself as a living presence, holding pain, beauty, trauma, and survival across generations.
A windswept historical novel about land, memory, family, and the histories that refuse to stay buried.
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait comes Land, Maggie O’Farrell’s sweeping new novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.
Rent new hardcover on Trove: $12.80 - Each rental copy can be rented for 30 days. If you love the book and decide to keep it, the remaining balance applies. More information below.
Buy new hardcover on Trove: $32.00
____________________________________________
About the book:
In 1865 Ireland, Tomás and his young son Liam are helping map the country for the great Ordnance Survey project. Their work takes them across a windswept Atlantic peninsula still marked by the devastation of the Great Hunger.
Tomás is determined that his maps will do more than record roads, fields, and boundaries. He wants them to preserve the memory of what happened to the land and the people who were lost.
But when an unsettling encounter in a copse sends Tomás off course, something inside him begins to fracture. Liam, only ten years old, must face his father’s sudden change and find a way to complete the work that may get them both home.
Land is a novel about family, survival, colonization, memory, and the stories landscapes hold long after people try to forget them. Rich with ancient woodland, buried treasure, ghosts, rebellion, and a loyal dog, it is historical fiction with the force of myth.
____________________________________________
This book is for you if:
You loved Hamnet or The Marriage Portrait.
You are drawn to stories about Ireland, family history, colonization, memory, and survival.
You like literary fiction that feels atmospheric, emotional, and deeply rooted in place.
You enjoy books that blend historical drama, mystery, folklore, and emotional depth.
____________________________________________
About the author:
Maggie O’Farrell is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait, After You’d Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine, and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death.
Her novel Hamnet won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, while The Hand That First Held Mine won the Costa Novel Award. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, O’Farrell now lives in Edinburgh.
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The reviews are in! Readers are calling it elemental, haunting, and unforgettable:
Early readers describe Land as a devastating and beautifully written story of family, memory, and the question of who has the right to land.
Booksellers are praising O’Farrell’s ability to turn mapping into something larger: a mix of science, storytelling, mathematics, artistry, and history.
Readers are calling the novel rich with family drama, mystery, magic, and a deep sense of place.
Several early reviewers describe the landscape itself as a living presence, holding pain, beauty, trauma, and survival across generations.
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