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Hamnet

O’Farrell, Maggie
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group (Tinder Press)
Published: April 1, 2021
ISBN: 9781472223821
384 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£8.99

WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION

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.

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