Hamnet Reimagines Grief Behind Shakespeare's Family Home
Domestic grief, tenderness and love make Maggie O’Farrell’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s family life feel deeply personal. Hamnet is historical fiction, but its real power is intimate rather than grand, turning absence into something quietly devastating.
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Hamnet Reimagines Grief Behind Shakespeare's Family Home
Domestic grief, tenderness and love make Maggie O’Farrell’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s family life feel deeply personal. Hamnet is historical fiction, but its real power is intimate rather than grand, turning absence into something quietly devastating.
- Book Synopsis
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The no. 1 bestseller that inspired the major film starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal
WINNER: BEST PICTURE (DRAMA) AND BEST ACTRESS AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES WINNER: OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM AND BEST ACTRESS AT THE BAFTAS NOMINATED FOR EIGHT ACADEMY AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST SCREENPLAY AND BEST PICTURE
'A thing of shimmering wonder' David Mitchell
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A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.
The untold love story that inspired Shakespeare's greatest masterpiece.
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 tells the powerful story of Agnes and Will, and of the son whose life has been all but forgotten, but who inspired one of the greatest plays ever written.
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'HAMNET is a feast for the senses'
'One of my favourite books of the year. Simply gorgeous'
'Words fail me... this story had me feeling everything'
'I read and reread passages throughout this exceptional novel'
Ideal for readers who:
- Look for historical fiction that makes Shakespeare’s family life intimate and devastating.
- Appreciate stories centred on Agnes, Hamnet and the private cost of public genius.
- Connect with grief, marriage and motherhood rendered in luminous detail.
- Prefer literary novels that turn famous history into something deeply personal.
- About The Author
- Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781472223821
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Tinder Press, (01 April 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 372
- Weight
- 333 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 30 mm
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