Maggie O'Farrell is an award-winning Irish-British author. Her books for adults have received international acclaim; she has won the 2013 Costa Novel Award for The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2020 Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the 2020 Women's Fiction Prize for Hamnet, and her non-fiction book I Am I Am I Am reached number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Where Snow Angels Go was her first book for children, and it won the Indie Book of the Month. The Boy Who Lost His Spark, its follow up title, won the the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Honour Award for Fiction. She lives in Edinburgh with her family.