An addictive and unforgettable novel of a marriage in freefall, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2016.

A Sunday Times top ten bestseller, the dazzling new novel from Costa Novel Award-winner Maggie O'Farrell, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage.

'A tour de force... her best novel to date, a book that surely confirms her as one of the UK's most assured, accomplished and inventive storytellers' Observer

'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times

'Inventive, moving and hilarious. I loved it' Rachel Joyce

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 ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway.

He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with twenty years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?

A tour de force, a complex and nuanced story leaping effortlessly across multiple characters and time frames... destined to be one of the most acclaimed books of 2016