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 on May 27, 1972), is an Irish novelist. Her acclaimed debut novel, After You'd Gone, earned her the Betty Trask Award, and her later work, The Hand That First Held Mine, won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has been shortlisted twice for the Costa Novel Award: in 2014 for Instructions for a Heatwave and again in 2017 for This Must Be The Place.