This week, a conversation with the prize-winning novelist, Maggie O'Farrell. Her book,The Hand That First Held Mine won Britain's Costa Award for Best Novel. It's O'Farrell's fifth book and she's been winning prizes ever since her first one, After You'd Gone won the Betty Trask Award. Her books about independent women, set in the past and the present, are literary page-turners.

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and The Hand That First Held Mine are published by Headline.

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