Maggie O’farrell Choose Life

August 12, 8.30pm-9.30pm The supremely talented Edinburgh-based author is renowned for her sublime prose. Having already achieved glittering literary success with her novels After You’d Gone and Instructions For A Heat Wave, Maggie has now turned her hand to non-fiction. Her unconventional memoir Iam,iam,iamisa moving account of the author’s 17 brushes with death. This year O’farrell returns to EIBF to discuss the success of this dazzling memoir with columnist and playwright Damian Barr.