Hamnet (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525657606)

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time. - "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.

Author: Maggie O'Farrell
ISBN-10: 0525657606
ISBN-13: 9780525657606
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2020
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2020 pg. 53
Booklist 05/15/2020 pg. 35
Publishers Weekly 05/25/2020
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2020