Maggie O´Farrell Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

»Glaubst du, es könnte sein, dass wir am Ende unserer Geschichte angelangt sind?‹« Claudette Wells ist eine Frau, die zur Schrotflinte greift, sobald sich ein Fremder dem Haus ihrer Familie nähert. Warum beschützt sie ihr Refugium im Nordwesten Irlands so rigoros? Und warum gab sie ihre Karriere als Filmstar auf, obwohl ihr die Welt zu Füßen lag? Ihr Ehemann Daniel, Linguistikprofessor aus Brooklyn, verliert die ihm eigene Bodenhaftung, als er vom Tod seiner Ex-Geliebten Nicola Janks erfährt. Eine über Jahrzehnte verdrängte Schuld bricht über ihn herein – und reißt ihn aus dem Leben, das er und Claudette sich aufgebaut haben. Keine Autorin wurde in Großbritannien zuletzt so gefeiert wie Maggie O’Farrell. In »Hier muss es sein« brilliert sie mit dem nuancierten Porträt einer Ehe, so verschlungen wie die Liebe selbst. »Ein hinreißender Roman über Liebe und Hoffnung, der mitten ins Herz trifft.« The Sunday Times »›Hier muss es sein‹ ist ein stilistisches, erzählerisches und emotionales Meisterwerk, eine komplexe und nuancierte Geschichte, die sich mühelos zwischen verschiedenen Figuren, Kontinenten und Zeitebenen hin- und herbewegt.« Observer »Maggie O’Farrell lenkt ihre Figuren mit der Kunstfertigkeit einer Magierin. Sie ist eine geschickte, blendende Chronistin menschlicher Beziehungen.« The Guardian

An irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. Best-selling author Maggie O'Farrell captures an extraordinary marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humor in what Richard Russo calls "her breakout book." Perfect for readers of Where'd You Go, Bernadette. Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn, and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to pulling a gun on anyone who ventures up their driveway. Claudette was once the most glamorous and infamous woman in cinema before she staged her own disappearance and retreated to blissful seclusion in an Irish farmhouse. But the life Daniel and Claudette have so carefully constructed is about to be disrupted by an unexpected discovery about a woman Daniel lost touch with twenty years ago. This revelation will send him off-course, far away from wife, children, and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back? - Amazon.com

"An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists"--

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed. 'Unputdownable' Ali Smith Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?

From Maggie O'Farrell, bestselling author of AFTER YOU'D GONE and THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, comes a gripping novel about the way childhood fears can haunt adult lives. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but she instantly recognises him. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous. They know nothing of one another's existence, but both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote it doesn't appear on any map, and Stella for a destination in Scotland, the significance of which only her sister, Nina, will understand. Gripping, insightful and deft, this is Maggie O'Farrell's finest achievement to date.