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Radio Scotland,12 Nov 2022,28 mins

Maggie O’Farrell

Stark Talk

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Edi talks to the fascinating writer Maggie O’Farrell about what lies behind her highly successful novels, including Hamnett which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She also talks about her own true personal brushes with danger and death since childhood, and how her memoir ‘I am I am I am’ is linked to her daughter’s life threatening allergies. She reveals how her latest novel, The Marriage Portrait, set in Renaissance Italy, arrived on her lap.

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