by Maggie O'Farrell · Headline Review · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780755309184
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Maggie O'Farrell's novel 'The Distance Between Us' tells a story of family and emigration set between Hong Kong and the Scottish Highlands. The plot follows Stella, who flees London to confront a childhood secret that has marked her life and twinned her destiny with her sister's. Jake, on the other hand, arrives from Hong Kong to Britain in search of the father he never knew. When Stella and Jake meet, their lives change forever, painfully revealing Stella's past. This moving story explores the complexities of family relationships and how the past can influence the present.
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL is an Irish-British novelist. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. O'Farrell co-adapted the book for the screen with Chloé Zhao in 2025, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.
