Maggie O'Farrell is a Northern Irish author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future. It is possible to identify several common themes in her novels – the relationship between sisters is one, another is loss and the psychological impact of those losses on the lives of her characters. O'Farrell won the 2010 Costa novel award on 4 January 2010 for her novel, The Hand That First Held Mine.

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 Held Mine, Instructions for a Heatwave- which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, and *This Must Be the Place. *

She currently lives in Edinburgh with her husband and two children.

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