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Hamnet author Maggie O'Farrell on her new novel and keeping her Bafta in the basement

Acclaimed novelist Maggie O'Farrell, winner of a Bafta and Golden Globe for adapting her novel Hamnet for film, discusses her new political novel Land in an interview at her Edinburgh home. Land, inspired by her great-great-grandfather's work on Ordnance Survey maps during the Irish Great Famine, explores themes of colonization, devastation, and displacement, while O'Farrell also shares personal insights on her Irish heritage, past experiences with anti-Irish racism, and her choice to store her awards in the basement.