This Must Be the Place - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Maggie O'Farrell (Paperback)

About the Book

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Tinder Press, an imprint of Headline Publishing Group, a Hachette UK Company, London, in 2016, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2016" -- Title page verso.

Book Synopsis

An irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. The New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet captures an extraordinary marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humor in what Richard Russo calls "her breakout book."

Daniel Sullivan leads 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 his wife, Claudette, is a reclusive ex-film star given to pulling a gun on anyone who ventures up their driveway. Together, they have made an idyllic life in the country, but a secret from Daniel's past threatens to destroy their meticulously constructed and fiercely protected home. Shot through with humor and wisdom, This Must Be the Place is an irresistible love story that crisscrosses continents and time zones as it captures an extraordinary marriage, and an unforgettable family, with wit and deep affection.

Review Quotes

"Intensely absorbing. . . . O'Farrell writes novels in which you can happily lose yourself." --NPR

"Compassionate. . . . Few contemporary writers equal Maggie O'Farrell's gift for combining intricate, engrossing plots with full-bodied characterizations." --The Washington Post

"Heartfelt." --Vogue

"Marvelous, a contemporary and highly readable experiment whose ambitious structure both enacts and illuminates its central concern: what links and separates our 21st-century selves as we love, betray, blunder and soldier on (and back) through time." --The New York Times Book Review

"Extraordinary. . . . An engrossing novel . . . from a writer of impressive, perhaps masterly, skills." --The Washington Times

About the Author

MAGGIE O'FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You'd Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.