Hamnet
O'Farrell, Maggie 1972-
Hamnet / Maggie O'Farrell. - 372 pages ; 20 cm.
Originally published: 2020. "First published in paperback in 2021 by Tinder Press"--Title page verso.
A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father — falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down — a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists.
Women's prize for fiction, 2020
9781472223821
Shakespeare, Hamnet 1585-1596 --Fiction
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 --Family--Fiction
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Hamlet --Fiction
1500-1599
Families --Fiction
Playwriting--Fiction
Playwriting
Stratford-upon-Avon (England)--History--16th century--Fiction
READING IN ENGLISH
Historical fiction
Biographical fiction
PR6065.F36 / H35 2021
Hamnet / Maggie O'Farrell. - 372 pages ; 20 cm.
Originally published: 2020. "First published in paperback in 2021 by Tinder Press"--Title page verso.
A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father — falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down — a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists.
Women's prize for fiction, 2020
9781472223821
Shakespeare, Hamnet 1585-1596 --Fiction
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 --Family--Fiction
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Hamlet --Fiction
1500-1599
Families --Fiction
Playwriting--Fiction
Playwriting
Stratford-upon-Avon (England)--History--16th century--Fiction
READING IN ENGLISH
Historical fiction
Biographical fiction
PR6065.F36 / H35 2021
