{"product_id":"land-a-novel","title":"Land: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1865, a father and his ten-year-old son walk an Atlantic peninsula, mapping a country emptied by the Great Hunger. Maggie O'Farrell follows what the survey uncovers in both of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBy the author of \u003cem\u003eHamnet\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA New York Times bestseller, with a starred review from Booklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, 400 pages, Knopf, 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTomás and his son, Liam, are working for the Ordnance Survey, the project to map all of Ireland, and Tomás intends his maps to stand as a record of the famine. When an encounter in a stand of woods sends him off course, Liam is left to wonder what has changed in his father and how the work will ever be finished. The novel reaches across overlapping lives, old woodland and the long memory of the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt suits readers of literary historical fiction, readers of O'Farrell's \u003cem\u003eHamnet\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage Portrait\u003c\/em\u003e, and anyone drawn to novels where landscape carries as much weight as character. A map is meant to settle a place. Here it unsettles everyone who makes one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaggie O'Farrell was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, and lives in Edinburgh. Her novels include \u003cem\u003eHamnet\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction; \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage Portrait\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Hand That First Held Mine\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Costa Novel Award. She is also the author of the memoir \u003cem\u003eI Am, I Am, I Am\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47854480031893,"sku":"NEW-ING-0593320646","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/57_030d58b0-37f2-4207-b0b4-eef2611e7ae5.jpg?v=1787904147","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/land-a-novel","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}