Maggie O’Farrell’s land before time

Novelist Maggie O’Farrell always wanted to write the story of her great-great-grandfather, who lived in Ireland and worked for the Ordinance Survey, Britain’s mapping service, in the 1850s.

And now she has.

Her vivid new novel, Land, features a surveyor and his family who are engulfed in the chaos of the era.

These were perilous […] ...