But the classroom fell profoundly silent as 20 or so Hong Kong Chinese students stared at me in dismay. Maggie O'Farrell, 2020 Knopf Doubleday 320 pp. She makes Stella a very appealing character, and her relationship with sister Nina is certainly believable, though I found myself disliking Nina quite a lot and wishing I didn't. The reader wonders, for example, if the male friend who gives O'Farrell a compass as she sets off to Hong Kong is the same man that she writes to from China. Stella - spirited, witty and passionate - has fled London to confront the childhood secret which has marked her life, and twinned her destiny with her sister's. Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, MAGGIE O’FARRELL grew up in Wales and Scotland and now lives in London. She has also taught creative writing. I was 22 and travelling back overland from Hong Kong, where I’d been living, when I went to a museum near Irkutsk. She makes Stella a very appealing character, and her relationship with sister Nina is certainly believable, though I found myself disliking Nina quite a lot and wishing I didn't. Maggie O’Farrell: Near-death experience made me feel I cheated the universe. ... Maggie O’Farrell. Set largely between Hong Kong and the Scottish Highlands, Maggie O'Farrell's third novel is a story about family and emigration - and the way you can never escape your family, or their history, no matter how far you travel. O'Farrell is fascinating on Jake and Stella's family backgrounds and how they've made them the people they are, and brings Scotland and Hong Kong very vividly to life. Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, MAGGIE O'FARRELL grew up in Wales and Scotland and now lives in London. Maggie O'Farrell (born 1972, Coleraine Northern Ireland) is a British author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future. She is married to the novelist William Sutcliffe, whom she met at … She has worked as a waitress, chambermaid, bike messenger, teacher, arts administrator, journalist (in Hong Kong and London), and as the… More about Maggie O’Farrell Instead O'Farrell criss-crosses the years and decades of her life, challenging the reader to piece together her biography, almost like a jigsaw puzzle. About Maggie O’Farrell. Maggie O'Farrell. O'Farrell is fascinating on Jake and Stella's family backgrounds and how they've made them the people they are, and brings Scotland and Hong Kong very vividly to life. ISBN-13: 9780525657606 ... Maggie worked as a journalist, both in Hong Kong and as the Deputy Literary Editor of The Independent on Sunday. In Hong Kong a pro-democracy activist proudly carries the Union flag in protest against Beijjng. https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/maggie-ofarrell
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