Maggie O’Farrell turns Nineteenth-century Eire right into a themed pub cliché in her new novel
Land, Maggie O’Farrell’s 10th novel, is a sprawling circle of relatives saga. Traverses the milestones of Nineteenth-century Irish historical past, together with the Nice Famine (with its corollary, incarceration in an asylum) and the mapping of Eire during the Ordnance Survey. The tale is encouraged via O’Farrell’s discovery that his great-great-grandfather labored at the survey. […]




