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It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guideRemind me…Born in Northern Ireland and now living in Edinburgh, O’Farrell published her first novel, After You’d Gone, to critical acclaim in 2000 and won a Betty Trask award. In 2020 she won the Women’s prize for fiction for her novel Hamnet, which imagined the short life of Shakespeare’s son. She has also written a bestselling memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am. The Marriage Portrait is her ninth novel. Continue reading...