Hamnet Hamnet

Hamnet

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER

    • 4.4 • 535 Ratings
    • £5.49

Publisher Description

WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER 2021
'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times
'A thing of shimmering wonder' David Mitchell

TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?

Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London.

Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week.

Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
31 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Headline
SIZE
4.2
MB

Customer Reviews

KLCEGB ,

KC

Captivating storyline

cheeseclub101 ,

Beautiful, heart rending, immediate

I have no idea how Maggie O’Farrell does it, but the smells and sensations of Shakespeare’s world are in my consciousness long after I finished the book, and Shakespeare himself, not at all. A book I pined for on finishing it.

Layeredcake ,

Not the author’s usual gold

Boring, slow, depressing. Gave up after five dreary chapters.

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