{"product_id":"9781472289087","title":"Land : From the no. 1 bestselling author of Hamnet, a multigenerational epic of loss, hope and reunion","description":"\u003ch5\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte says about Land: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWoven with folklore and ancient magic, and grounded by a cast of beautifully complex characters, Land follows one family as they navigate life after the famine on the Irish peninsula. Maggie O’Farrell writes with a sensibility that balances the impossible span of time with the endurance of human connection, and has created a story that punctuates one thing; we will always be interwoven with the land and those that have lived, and will live, upon its earth.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLand is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: O'Farrell, Maggie\u003cbr\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003cbr\u003ePublished on 2 June 2026 by Headline Publishing Group (Tinder Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 448 pages\u003cbr\u003e241 x 167 x 41 | 794g\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"O'Farrell, Maggie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58393825968502,"sku":"9781472289087","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0362\/8423\/5908\/files\/9781472289087.jpg?v=1785847229","url":"https:\/\/haslemerebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781472289087","provider":"The Haslemere Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}