Originally published: 2016.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2016, this is an unforgettable novel of a marriage in freefall and a reclusive ex-film star who walked out of her cinematic career, despite having the whole world at her feet. Fiercely protective of her family and with her husband going AWOL, will their love for eachother bring him back? A top-ten bestseller, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Maggie O'Farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. 'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday TimesA reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet?Her husband Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years