What does it really take to breathe life into a bestseller? To make another time come alive? To place us into a polyphony of perspectives?

In this candid conversation, acclaimed author Maggie O’Farrell joins Luke Bateman to unpack her extraordinary life story and highly intuitive creative process. From surviving a life-altering childhood illness at age eight that forced her to re-learn basic motor skills and embrace reading (and re-reading), to inspirations and insights into her most accliamed works such as Hamnet, Land and The Marriage Portrait, and why Irish culture is uniquely built for storytelling.