The dazzling new novel from bestselling, award-winning author Maggie O’Fareel. «This must be the place» crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage.

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 shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway.

He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with twenty years ago. This discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?

Maggie O’Farrell’s seventh novel is an intimate epic about who we leave behind and who we become as we search for our place in the world.

Stylistically the novel takes some audacious risks. The epicentre of the novel is a portrait of a marriage, so deftly painted by O’Farrell that the experience of reading it is quite devastating. There are themes here that readers familiar with O’Farrell’s writing will recognise. Emotional and geographical displacement, the unintentional dissonances between loved ones and the secrets we may run but can never escape. But here, O’Farrell broadens her thematic canvas to include alcoholism, infertility and the cult of modern celebrity.

Throughout the novel, she experiments with perspective, grammatical tense and style. A rich cast of secondary characters populate the narrative. Each chapter is told from a different point of view, and it is testament to the distinctiveness of the voices O’Farrell creates.