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This Must Be the Place

Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)

3.94 · Rating details · 15,817 ratings · 1,754 reviews

A dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the Costa Novel Awardan irresistible love story that crisscrosses continents and time zones as it captures an extraordinary marriage, and an unforgettable family, with wit, humor, and deep affection.

Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has ...more

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Kindle Edition, 496 pages

Published May 17th 2016 by Tinder Press

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Does anyone know the significance of the character, Rosalind? Her husband, Lionel, cheated on her and I wasn't sure why that was important, other than she was sort of moving on with her life?

Rose Ann I think she was just a device, a "McGuffin," if you will, to move the story along and show us that Daniel had visited that place with his son Niall. I…moreI think she was just a device, a "McGuffin," if you will, to move the story along and show us that Daniel had visited that place with his son Niall. I found her more interesting, at that point in the story, than Daniel. I found almost everyone in the story more interesting than Daniel and Claudette. Those to navel-gazers bored me silly by the end.
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Oct 31, 2019 Kim rated it really liked it

Elsker sproget, stemningen, personerne! Utroligt smukt sprog. Men hen mod slutningen savnede jeg en mere stringent handling - den virkede uforløst, og man manglede svar på en masse småting undervejs. Havde den haft en anelse mere reel spændingskurve, ville jeg have været helt oppe at ringe over den.

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Maggie O'Farrell (born 1972, Coleraine Northern Ireland) is a British 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.