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

And also about, you know, we often we know about the story about people who died.

But I think the story I was interested in and what it was like to still be there.

Yeah, to have to live through it.

And to kind of try and recover from it.

I haven't really seen that.

I think you often write the books you would want to read.

So I think I wanted to tell that story to try and understand what it was like to try and recover from this enormous collective trauma.

Yeah, I was like, do you know what time period it is?

I thought, I mean, I was tempted to kind of put Lake, but I didn't want to do it.

I didn't want to make it into a history lesson.

And if you want to go, yeah.

One of my favorite places in the world is the Archaeology Museum in Dublin, which I love, which goes right back to the earliest people who inhabited Ireland.

And that was a big inspiration for that part of the book.

So I wasn't sure.

When I was writing that whole chapter, I was thinking maybe my editor's going to put a massive red pen on this and say, what are you doing?

What is all this about?

What's the next one?

Although she may well, you know, just say, I'm sorry, that all...

But it seemed really important to me.

You know, Irish myth is something that was read to me as a child a lot.

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