PremiumSarah DaniellFreelance writer ·Canvas·6 Jun, 2026 06:00 AM12 mins to read‌Maggie O'Farrell, multi-award winning author and co-scriptwriter, maps the hidden fault lines of history, family, and the Irish soil that shaped her in her latest book, Land.Fresh off the Oscar-winning film adaptation of her novel Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell maps the hidden fault lines of history, family, and the Irish soil that shaped her in her latest book, Land.

Maggie O’Farrell is sitting at a table in her home in Edinburgh, wearing large, black-framed spectacles (“my daughter