Children Quotes by Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell

She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no one will ever love them like you do. You know that no one will look after them like you do. You know that it’s an impossibility, it’s unthinkable that you could be taken away, that you will have to leave them behind.

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Maggie O'Farrell

The role you’ve been ascribed in childhood can twist or break apart or seem outgrown, especially when you have your own family and begin to see your own childhood from a different angle. You remember. You reassess. I think that was the kernel of the novel for me. This idea that you change but that your family, the people you were born into, might find that change hard to accept. You no longer fit the mold you’ve always been ascribed. When the adult children in the book converge back on their small family home there’s a sense that they don’t fit there anymore.

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Home

Maggie O'Farrell

While I was writing the book, one of my children was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very tiny word for a wide-ranging neurological condition that affects different people in different ways. But I was reading an awful lot about it, to try and find ways of helping my child. I think a lot of fiction comes from this desire to confront unanswerable questions, and it’s heartbreaking to see your child, a bright child, struggling so much with something that others are finding so easy. It’s such an assault to the child’s self-esteem and, as a mother, it’s hard to watch.

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