Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chronology of Maggie O'Farrell's Life and Works
Introduction - Elaine Canning (Swansea University, UK)
In Search of Maggie O'Farrell
1. 'The Space Between': Maggie O'Farrell's The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Susan Alice Fischer, Medgar Evers College/CUNY, USA)
2. Love, Loss and (Be)longing in After You'd Gone and The Distance Between Us (Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK)
3. 'The Women We Become After Children': Palimpsests of the City and the Self in Maggie O'Farrell's The Hand That First Held Mine (Ruth Gilligan, University of Birmingham, UK)
4. Vantage Points: How Maggie O'Farrell Dissects a Marriage by Shifting Points of View in This Must Be the Place (Edward Matthews, San Diego, USA)
5. Lost in Translation: The Dis-Located Structures of Maggie O'Farrell's My Lover's Lover (Sarah Gamble, Swansea University, UK)
6. 'A small victory for Love over Death': the haunted narratives of I Am, I Am, I Am, Instructions for a Heatwave, and The Hand that First Held Mine (Tasha Alden, Aberystwyth University, UK)
7. The taming shrew: Agnes in Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet as (early) modern husbander (Nicholas Taylor-Collins, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK)
8. Filling Historical and Emotional Voids: Hamnet (Laurie Maguire, University of Oxford, UK)
9. Remaking the Duchess: Underpainting and Overpainting in The Marriage Portrait (Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK)
10. 'Post-It Baby': An Interview with Maggie O'Farrell (Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK)
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index