Outline Maggie O'Farrell is mired in contemplative misery

is mired in contemplative misery in a fisherman's cottage on the windy bleak west coast of Ireland

has bizarre prophetic dreams about a decapitated scientist

including the Mad Hatter and his tea party

Predictably

As Leia comes to grips with her loss

Outline Maggie O'Farrell is mired in contemplative miseryA woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their