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Maggie O’Farrell Books in Order
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL 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. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards, and was co-adapted for the screen with Chloe Zhao in 2025. Her 2022 historical novel The Marriage Portrait was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Maggie O’Farrell's book series? Maggie O’Farrell has written 3 book series. The most notable is the Non-Fiction series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Maggie O’Farrell
- #1
I Am, I Am, I Am(2017)
- #1
Where Snow Angels Go(2020)
- #1
After You'd Gone(2000) - #2
My Lover's Lover(2002) - #3
The Distance Between Us(2004) - #4The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox(2006)
- #5
The Hand That First Held Mine(2009) - #6
Instructions for a Heatwave(2013) - #7
This Must Be the Place(2016) - #8
Hamnet / Hamnet & Judith(2020) - #9
The Marriage Portrait(2022)
About Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL 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. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards, and was co-adapted for the screen with Chloe Zhao in 2025. Her 2022 historical novel The Marriage Portrait was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.
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