A father. A son. A map of Ireland. But this story charts far more than land. Inspired by her ancestor’s work on the Ordnance Survey, Maggie O’Farrell tells a sweeping, luminous tale set in 1865, where history, memory, and myth entwine. As Tomas works to record the true story of his homeland, refusing to let it be erased, generations unfold in a narrative where time feels beautifully, magically non-linear. The land itself lives and breathes here. Houses hold love and grief. The soil carries endings and beginnings all at once. Vast, intimate, and impossible to forget.
Land by Maggie O’Farrell, (List Price: $32, Knopf, 9780593320648, June 2026)
Reviewed by Sandra, Hills and Hamlets Bookshop in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia