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PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at Maggie O'Farrell's new novel Land

The summer 2026 novel follows a father and son in the years surrounding The Great Famine in Ireland

O’Farrell is also the author of the bestselling novel Hamnet, which hits select theaters on Nov. 27

Maggie O’Farrell, author of the international bestseller Hamnet , has a new novel on the way!

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the forthcoming Land , out next year via Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

The novel is set in Ireland in the years before and after The Famine, also known as The Great Hunger, and follows a father and son working on the Great Ordnance Survey, a project which mapped the whole of the country for the British. While the father is determined for their maps to

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