This Must Be the Place : Vintage Contemporaries - Maggie O'Farrell

This Must Be the Place

By: Maggie O'Farrell

Paperback | 16 May 2017

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An irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. Best-selling author Maggie O'Farrell captures an extraordinary marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humor in what Richard Russo calls "her breakout book." Perfect for readers of Where'd You Go, Bernadette.
 
Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn, and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to pulling a gun on anyone who ventures up their driveway. Claudette was once the most glamorous and infamous woman in cinema before she staged her own disappearance and retreated to blissful seclusion in an Irish farmhouse. 

But the life Daniel and Claudette have so carefully constructed is about to be disrupted by an unexpected discovery about a woman Daniel lost touch with twenty years ago. This revelation will send him off-course, far away from wife, children, and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?
 
"O'Farrell's prose manages to be both intimate and expansive and keenly perceptive in its insights about the complexities of marriage.  Beautiful and bittersweet, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE will make O'Farrell's longtime fans swoon while prompting new readers to wonder why they've only just discovered her."
--BookPage
 
 "I have been a huge fan of Maggie O'Farrell's novels for years.  She writes with tremendous clarity and poise and in THIS MUST BE THE PLACE you are invested in what happens to Daniel and Claudette from the moment you meet them.  A joy to read."
 --Jane Green
 
"Inventive, moving, and hilarious. I loved it."  
-Rachel Joyce, best-selling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
 




From the Hardcover edition.
Industry Reviews
"Intensely absorbing. . . . O'Farrell writes novels in which you can happily lose yourself." --NPR

"Compassionate. . . . Few contemporary writers equal Maggie O'Farrell's gift for combining intricate, engrossing plots with full-bodied characterizations." --The Washington Post

"Heartfelt." --Vogue

"Marvelous, a contemporary and highly readable experiment whose ambitious structure both enacts and illuminates its central concern: what links and separates our 21st-century selves as we love, betray, blunder and soldier on (and back) through time." --The New York Times Book Review

"Extraordinary. . . . An engrossing novel . . . from a writer of impressive, perhaps masterly, skills." --The Washington Times

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