Land

You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow
A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy.

A heart-bursting story of resilience and love LOUISE KENNEDY
A story that has such heartSUNDAY TIMES
Wild, urgent, mystical... proves again that Maggie OFarrell is the best of us VIRGINIA EVANS
Darkly magical. A brilliant and powerful novel ALICE WINN
Magnificent... a feat of the historical imagination INDEPENDENT
Full of vigour... OFarrell excelsNEW YORKER
As visceral as a novel can get YAEL VAN DER WOUDEN

On a windswept peninsula in 1865, Tomás and his ten-year-old son, Liam are working on a project to map the whole of Ireland - a challenging task in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. Tomás is determined that his maps will bear witness to the disaster.

When Tomás is sent off course by a mysterious encounter in a wood, his life, and that of his family, will never be the same. Now Liam must somehow finish the work himself, and find a way to get them both home.

Tomáss wife, Phina, is alarmed by the change in her taciturn husband, while Enda, their eldest daughter, still smarts from the injustice of not being allowed to take part in the mapping. Rose, the youngest, fears what lies ahead because it isnt long before Tomás proposes a huge change for them all.

Land is a story of love and survival, buried treasure, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.