Maggie O'Farrell

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Jun 6, 202614:37Society & Culture

Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Keen to move away from The Troubles, her father took a job at the University of Wales and the family moved to Bridgend when Maggie was a child. At the age of eight s...

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