Join us at the Southbank Centre for an evening with Maggie O’Farrell, one of the most loved writers in the English language. Her debut, After You’d Gone, marked the start of a career which has established her as one of the great storytellers of our times.

Her nine novels have explored disparate themes – from incarceration, madness and treachery to love, bereavement and loss – but they all share her masterful craft and inimitable prose, drawing readers deep into fictional worlds few can forget.

She has enjoyed critical acclaim and received numerous literary awards: The Hand that First Held Mine won the 2010 Costa Novel Award; Hamnet, which imagined the untold story of Shakespeare’s son, won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and was Waterstones’ Book of the Year; and her most recent novel, The Marriage Portrait, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize.