TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Farrell, Maggie
TI  - Hamnet 
SN  - 9781472223821
AV  - PR6065.F36 H35 2021
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Tinder Press
KW  - Shakespeare, Hamnet
KW  - Shakespeare, William
KW  - Families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Playwriting
KW  - Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - READING IN ENGLISH
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Biographical fiction
N1  - Originally published: 2020; "First published in paperback in 2021 by Tinder Press"--Title page verso
N2  - 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
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