O’Farrell’s new novel is based on the story of her own great, great-grandfather, and tells the story of a father and son mapping 19th-century Ireland after the devastation of the Great Famine.
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TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. Our guest is author Maggie O’Farrell. She’s best known for her 2020 novel “Hamnet.” It was adapted into a movie last year, and Jessie Buckley won an Oscar for her performance as Agnes Shakespeare, William Shakespeare’s wife. O’Farrell cowrote the film
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