Maggie O'Farrell: Hamnet

Our December book of the month is... HAMNET! Maggie O'Farrell's
novel Hamnet won the Women’s Prize in 2020 – an apt year to be
awarded, given that it is, in part about a plague. While our own
plague, COVID-19 locked us all in our houses, many of us found
solace in this beautiful novel. O'Farrell took us back a few
centuries to Stratford Upon Avon where Shakespeare's family
resided. But this book isn't about Shakespeare -- in fact he's
never mentioned by name -- instead, t’s about the playwright's wife
Agnes and children Hamnet and Judith. I sat down with Maggie to
hear about it, and pose some of your questions to her. Learn more
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