An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part Two)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm senior producer Mia Serenti. In this episode we return for part two of our recent live event with award-winning author of Hamlet, Maggie O'Farrell. O'Farrell joined Claire Armistead live on stage at the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange to discuss the art of historical fiction and in the new novel land. If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode to catch up.
But now let's return to the conversation live at the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange. Let's talk a little bit more about the just what the the the other thing I raise about um deep history, deep mapping. Yes. Because you have there's a sort of whole mythology around that that is is sh shapes the landscape and comes out of the landscape and belongs to it. Um and it also has a it has a physical
history, which is there are people buried under this land. Yeah. Who've been here a very long time. So I knew that I wanted to write part of the book was going to be about a family and part of it was going to be an attempt to tell a story, the whole story of a country via one peninsula and all the people who've lived on it. So I knew that I wanted to go
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