num_pages: 402
description: A dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell winner of the Costa Novel Awardan irresistible love story that crisscrosses continents and time zones as it captures an extraordinary marriage and an unforgettable family with wit humor and deep affection.Meet Daniel Sullivan a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland he has children he never sees in California a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife Claudette who is a reclusive exfilm star given to pulling a gun on anyone who ventures up their driveway. Claudette was once the most glamorous and infamous woman in cinema before she staged her own disappearance and retreated to blissful seclusion in an Irish farmhouse. But the life Daniel and Claudette have so carefully constructed is about to be disrupted by an unexpected discovery about a woman Daniel lost touch with twenty years ago. This revelation will send him off-course far away from wife children and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?This Must be the Place is a novel about family identity and true love: an intimately drawn portrait of a marriage both the forces that hold it together and the pressures that drive it apart. O'Farrell writes with complexity insight and laugh-out-loud humor in a narrative that hurtles forward with powerful velocity and emotion. This Must be the Place is a sophisticated spellbinding summer read from one of the UK's most highly acclaimed and best-loved novelists.
language: English
title: This Must Be the Place
publisher: Tinder Press