Maggie O’Farrell

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1,785 appearances 8 recordings 7 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 14 Jun

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · Land by Maggie O'Farrell with Maggie O'Farrell · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

Oh, great.

That's their little job.

And so it's got no Wi-Fi connection at all.

So I go down there and I'm completely... Yeah, it's like going back in time.

Yeah, but I have my phone up because, you know, I never know when my kids are going to call me and say, can you come pick me up?

But I put it outside so I don't kind of fiddle with it.

And also I can't leave it because there's no Wi-Fi.

So that's mostly where I wrote Land, down there.

But set in Ireland in the mid-19th century in the aftermath of the Great Famine.

And it's about a father and son mapping team, Thomas and Liam.

And they are working for the British Ordnance Survey, making revisions to the maps of Ireland after the famine.

And it's based on my great-great-grandfather and my great-grandfather.

Wow.

Yeah, those are their first names.

I decided not to talk about their surname just because I feel that they, yeah, I didn't want to completely identify them because it is a novel.

So I've taken what I was able to find out about them, which isn't much.

Well, not really.

I mean, when I was growing up, there's a kind of myth in our family that we were told as kids that one of our ancestors drew the first ever maps of Ireland.

And like all myths, I always wondered if there was a grain of truth in it.

And so I kind of went searching for the truth.

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