This Must Be the Place

This Must Be the Place

Published

April 2016

Publishers

UK
Tinder Press
US
Knopf
Catalan
L'Altra Editorial
China
People’s Literature Publishing House
Denmark
House of Words
Estonia
Eesti Raamat
France
Editions Belfond
Germany
Piper Verlag
Italy
Ugo Guanda
Poland
Sonia Draga
Russia
Eksmo
Serbia
Laguna
Spain
Libros del Asteroide
Sweden
Sekwa
The Netherlands
Ambo Anthos
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2016

Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway. He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with twenty years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?

This Must Be the Place crosses continents and time zones, giving voice to a diverse and complex cast of characters. At its heart, it is an extraordinary portrait of a marriage, the forces that hold it together and the pressures that drive it apart.

Maggie O'Farrell's seventh novel is a dazzling, intimate epic about who we leave behind and who we become as we search for our place in the world.