Maggie O'Farrell
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Maggie O'Farrell

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Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Keen to move away from The Troubles, her father took a job at the University of Wales and the family moved to Bridgend when Maggie was a child. At the age of eight she was hospitalised with encephalitis. She didn't attend school during this time but instead she discovered literature. The family then moved to Scotland. After her A' Level's, Maggie O'Farrell travelled south to Cambridge University to study, what else, English Literature. In her twenties she became a journalist working at the Independent on Sunday but her ambitions...

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Thanks for downloading Profile. This week's presenter is Stephen Smith. For maximum listening pleasure, we respectfully suggest that you enjoy this programme without your phone. That's right, get off the socials and TikTok kids. Today we're talking about books and reading, a real contact sport of concentration. We present a profile of best-selling author,

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Maggie O'Farrell, the woman responsible for Hamnit. The animal inside her flexes itself restlessly, starts to scrape at her innards with its needling claws. BBC data scraping reveals that most of you are second screening while this programme's

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on. God knows I would. But today's an opportunity to immerse ourselves in language, writing. quality prose courtesy of Mazzo Farrell whose new novel Land is published this week.

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