Author Maggie O’Farrell talks about her latest novel 'This Must Be the Place'

An encounter with a celebrity that showed the misery of fame inspired Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel, she tells Jonathan de Burca Butler.

Maggie O’Farrell’s accent is hard to place. When I meet her at a hotel bar in Dublin I spend the first couple of minutes trying to figure out where she’s from.

As it turns out, she has spent much of her life doing the exact same thing.