The Marriage Portrait

And it is a soaring historical book.

She is also the author of Hamnet, which was made into a very popular and award-winning movie, and The Marriage Portrait, which maybe some people enjoyed as well.

So this is a historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after The Great Hunger.

So, you know...

Yeah, because I think I've read more of her.

Yes, Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait.

Yes, that's right.

We both read The Marriage Portrait.

We did.

You read Hamnet.

Okay.

New York Times bestseller, the award-winning bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.

Thomas and his reluctant son Liam are working for the Great Ordnance Survey Project to map the whole of Ireland.

The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one.

And I was just looking over other books by Maggie O'Farrell.

And you've read Hamnet.

I've read The Marriage Portrait.

Okay.

Now, of course, there are exceptions to that.

Like, I absolutely love the author of, of Hamnet, I think it's Maggie O'Hara, um, and The Marriage Portrait.

She's a modern author, and her writing is stunning, so there are exceptions to that rule in modern fiction.

I'm not painting with a super broad brush.

Yes.

The Marriage Portrait is one of her books.

And I was like, oh, I'm just, I'm started.

And I ate it up.

That's a brilliant read.

Now, that's a couple of years ago now.

But if you haven't read that, The Marriage Portrait.

So,