Land by Maggie O'Farrell Valentine's Day THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling

and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty

adorable Cole is happy to keep Brennan’s secret

But Carrie has a gift and she uses this gift to inflict a terrifying revenge

Casey Pearson grew up with a doomsday-prepping father

Land by Maggie O'Farrell Valentine's Day THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKOn a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Toms and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Toms, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be