Interview with Maggie O'Farrell

Published: Feb. 14, 2018, 8 a.m.

b"Autumn and Kendra chat with Maggie O'Farrell about her first work of nonfiction, her memoir\\xa0I Am, I Am, I Am. O'Farrell talks about why she wanted to write a memoir after seven novels and about her own relationship with mortality, which inspired her to share the stories her seventeen brushes with death.\\n Author Bio Maggie O'Farrell is the author of seven novels, After You'd Gone, My Lover's Lover, The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Half Mine, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, Instruction for a Heatwave, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, This Must Be the Place\\xa0and I Am, I Am, I Am. She lives in Edinburgh.\\n Buy the Book\\n Website | Facebook \\xa0\\n Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. A special thanks to our patrons Carley T. and Stephanie W. \\xa0And be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews!\\n \\xa0\\n CONTACT\\n Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.\\n SOCIAL MEDIA\\n Reading Women\\n Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website\\n \\xa0\\n Music \\u201cReading Women\\u201d Composed and Recorded by Isaac and Sarah Greene\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"