Maggie O. Farrell Livres

Après Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell nous entraîne dans la Renaissance italienne pour redonner vie à une femme libre, rebelle, incomprise. Portée par une écriture d'une beauté inouïe, une oeuvre lumineuse et poignante. C'est un grand jour à Ferrare. On y célèbre les noces du duc Alfonso et de Lucrèce de Médicis. La fête est extravagante et la foule n'a d'yeux que pour le couple. La mariée a quinze ans. Rien ne l'avait préparée à ce rôle. Elle n'était que la troisième fille du grand duc de Toscane, la discrète, la sensible, celle dont ses parents ne savaient que faire. Mais le décès soudain de soeur aînée a changé son histoire. La fête est finie, Lucrèce est seule dans un palais immense et froid. Seule face aux intrigues de la cour. Seule face à cet homme aussi charismatique que terrifiant qu'est son mari. Et tandis que Lucrèce pose pour le portrait de mariage qui figera son image pour l'éternité, elle voit se dessiner ce que l'on attend d'elle : donner vie à un héritier. Son propre destin en dépend... [Payot]

Depuis soixante ans, le monde l'a oubliée et sa famille ne prononce plus son nom. Esme Lennox n'existe plus. Mais quand ferme l'asile ou elle vivait recluse, la vieille femme réapparaît brusquement. Au bras de sa petite nièce, Esme découvre une Écosse moderne peuplée de fantômes... qui réveille, sous le silence des années, les secrets inavouables d'une vie volée. « À chaque page – jusqu'à l'ultime –, c'est la stupéfaction. [...] Magistral. » Jeanne de Ménibus - Madame Figaro

The new children’s book from multi-award-winning author of Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell, paired once more with Daniela Terrazzini’s stunning illustrations.When Jem and his family move to the countryside, he doesn’t like his new home one bit. It’s an old cottage on the side of a hill, where strange things keep happening: shoes are filled up with conkers, the stairs become tangled in a woollen maze. Jem’s sister Verity is certain it is the work of a “nouka”, an ancient creature from local folklore that lives deep down inside the hill. Jem, however, is adamant that there is no such thing.But this small mythical creature, so attuned to the hearts and minds of others, does exist. And, what’s more, it is determined, through mischief and mayhem, to help Jem reignite the spark within himself once more.

Have you ever woken up suddenly, in the middle of the night, without knowing why? Best-selling and award-winning master storyteller Maggie O'Farrell weaves an extraordinary and compelling modern fairy tale about the bravery of a little girl and the miracle of a snowy day. Sylvie wakes one night, suddenly, without knowing why. Then she sees the most spectacular sight - a pair of wings, enormous in size, made of the softest snow-white feathers imaginable. An angel in her bedroom ... a SNOW angel! He tells her that he is here to look after her, for Sylvie is not as well as she seems... Many months later, as Sylvie recovers from her illness, she longs to see her snow angel again. He saved her life! There is so much she wants to tell him, so much she wants to know! Will he ever come back to her? And how can Sylvie make sure that everyone she loves has their own snow angel, to keep them safe, too?

Exploring sisterly affection, the narrative follows two sisters on a journey of self-discovery and rediscovery of their voices. Through beautiful illustrations, the story delves into the complexities of their relationship, highlighting the themes of identity and connection. The author, known for their previous work, weaves a poignant tale that resonates with anyone who has navigated the bonds of family and the search for personal authenticity.

"Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet. Drawing on her long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, Maggie O'Farrell writes Hamnet as a luminous portrait of a marriage and at its heart the loss of a beloved child."--Publisher description.

AFTER YOU'D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O'Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief. A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London. AFTER YOU'D GONE follows Alice's mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, and of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family's heart.