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Festival Special: Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet and more

Festival Special: Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet and more

Novelist and memoirist Maggie O'Farrell in conversation with Kate Evans at the 2025 Sydney Writers Festival. Her nine novels include After You'd Gone, the Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, This Must be the Place, Hamnet and the Marriage Portrait . . . and her extraordinary memoir is I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death.

The Bookshelf · Australian Broadcasting Corporation

January 22, 2026

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Novelist and memoirist Maggie O'Farrell in conversation with Kate Evans at the 2025 Sydney Writers Festival. Her nine novels include After You'd Gone, the Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, This Must be the Place, Hamnet and the Marriage Portrait . . . and her extraordinary memoir is I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death.

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booksliteratureThe BookshelfMaggie O'FarrellHamnetShakespeareMArriage PortraitMemoirWRitingEssaysKate EvansSydney WRiters Festival