Maggie O’Farrell

Agent: Conrad Williams (Scriptwriting and Film/TV Rights)

Biography: Maggie O’Farrell is an author and screenwriter. Maggie has co-written the screenplay adaptation of her novel HAMNET (with Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao) for Hera/Neal St/Amblin Entertainment, which has started filming in July 2024 starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.  HAMNET was the winner of the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Maggie’s novels include THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT under option to Element Pictures,  THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award and is under option to Estuary Films, and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award and will be produced as a TV series for Amazon, starring Orlando Bloom.

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US won a Somerset Maugham Award; THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, and INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Her memoir I AM, I AM, I AM became a Sunday Times no 1 bestseller. Her titles have been published in 26 territories and translated into 23 languages.

Maggie is represented for books by Victoria Hobbs at A.M.Heath.

Maggie’s original work for the screen includes a TV series pilot for Avalon: NATURE, NURTURE.