Hamnet

Author: Maggie O'Farrell

Title: Hamnet

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 2021-05-18

Details: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER o NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER o 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. o "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.

EAN: 9781984898876

Package Dimensions: Height: 7.97 Inches, Length: 5.17 Inches, Weight: 0.5375 Pounds, Width: 0.75 Inches

Languages: en