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  Subject: Events

  Location: Iris Cantor Theatre at the John A. Paulson Center 38 West Houston Street New York, NY 10012

  Start Date: June 25, 2026

  End Date: June 25, 2026

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An Evening with Maggie O Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell in conversation with Mary Beth Keane about O'Farrell's latest novel, Land. Ticketing Information Tickets include general admission for one and one hardcover copy of Land, pre-stamped by the author with a custom stamp signature. We also have a limited number of pay-what-you-can tickets that do not include the book. Please use the donation option when you go to check out. Additional copies of Land will be available for purchase at the event, as well as Maggie O'Farrell previous titles. There will be no signing line or meet and greet at this event. All copies of Land will be pre-stamped by the author with a custom stamp signature. Note: Books bundled with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up beforehand. If you purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event, please let us know and we can arrange pick up or delivery for your copy of Land. About Land The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás, and how is Liam, aged only te