AWW21 Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning Hamnet gives us new and
illuminating insight into Shakespeare and his masterpiece, and
the family that nurtured him. Told from the perspective of
Shakespeare’s wife, this devastatingly beautiful novel takes as
its starting point the true fact of the death of their 11 year
old son, Hamnet (a variant on the more familiar Hamlet), and from
there weaves a deeply moving story of family, love and, most
profoundly, of grief, and the paths we must navigate through
them.


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