Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

How art and poetry inspired Maggie O'Farrell's new novel

A book cover and a picture of the author.
Maggie O’Farrell’s book “Hamnet” won worldwide acclaim when it was published in 2021. Her new novel, “The Marriage Portrait,” also imagines the life of a little-known figure who lived during the Renaissance – only this time, her subject is a young girl who died shortly after she married an Italian duke.
Author image by Murdo Macleod | Book cover courtesy of Penguin Random House