Liza Marshall of Hera Pictures has secured the screen rights to LAND, the forthcoming novel by Maggie O’Farrell, further strengthening the creative partnership between the award- winning producer and the acclaimed author following the success of Hamnet.

O’Farrell’s Hamnet, adapted for the screen by O’Farrell and writer-director Chloé Zhao, has earned widespread critical acclaim, multiple awards wins and nominations including ACADEMY AWARD, BAFTA and WGA nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Set in 1865, LAND follows Tomás and his reluctant son Liam as they work on Ireland’s Ordnance Survey in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. As they traverse a country still shaped by loss, displacement, and unresolved history, the novel explores themes of separation and reunion, colonisation and resistance, buried histories, and survival — all anchored in a profound father-son relationship and a vividly realised Irish landscape.

Land is set to publish in June 2026.

Hamnet has earned a record-breaking 11 BAFTA nominations, 8 ACADEMY AWARD nominations, a PGA Award nomination, 2 Golden Globe wins including Best Picture and Best Actress, a Critics Choice Award, and TIFF’s People’s Choice Award.

Liza Marshall, Founder of Hera Pictures and producer of Hamnet, says: “LAND is a profoundly moving work – intimate, expansive, and deeply human. Maggie has an extraordinary ability to illuminate history through the emotional lives of her characters, and this novel feels both urgent and timeless. After the wonderfully collaborative experience of Hamnet, I’m thrilled to continue my creative partnership with Maggie and bring another of her remarkable stories to the screen with the same care and ambition.”

Maggie O’Farrell says: “I’m over the moon that Liza and Hera have taken on LAND: this screen adaptation is in the best possible hands. It’s such a personal novel, incorporating my own family history, that I don’t think I could have entrusted it to any other producer. Liza is both a wide and wise reader, and she matches this with an almost uncanny ability to identify the right person for the right job on a film project. I know that for LAND she will put together a team as incredible and talented as the one for HAMNET and I can’t wait to see it all unfold.”

Early conversations are already underway with “top-tier talent.”

Maggie O’Farrell is published by Headline’s Tinder Press imprint in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf in the US.