This Must Be the Place: Costa Award Shortlisted 2016

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD A top-ten bestseller 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 Times A 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 ago is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home?