Hamnet by Maggie O'farrell

Hamnet by Maggie O'farrell

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - WINER OF THE NATIONAL BOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare's life . here is a novel . so gorgeously written that it transports you. --The Boston Globe

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor--penniless and bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.

O'Farrell, Maggie: - MAGGIE O'FARRELL is the author of four previous novels, including the acclaimed The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, which was a B&N Recommends Pick, and After You'd Gone. Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, O'Farrell grew up in Wales and Scotland. She has two children.

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ISBN 13	9781984898876
ISBN 10	1984898876
Title	Hamnet
Author	Maggie O'farrell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2021-05-18
Number of pages	320
Prizes	Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2020, Winner of Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2021
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