Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award, and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award: for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017.
Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born May 27, 1972), is an Irish novelist. She has published notable works including her first novel, After You'd Gone, which won the Betty Trask Award, and her subsequent book, The Hand That First Held Mine, which received the Costa Novel Award in 2010. Additionally, she has been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award twice: once in 2014 and again in 2017.