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Hamnet / Maggie O'Farrell.
Publication details: London : Tinder Press, 2020.Description: 372 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 1472223802
- 9781472223807
- Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 -- Fiction
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Family -- Fiction
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet -- Fiction
- 1500-1599
- Families -- Fiction
- Spouses -- Fiction
- Playwriting -- Fiction
- England -- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Stratford-upon-Avon (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction
- 823.92 23
- Winner 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction (UK). Winner 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (US).
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | OFA | Available | 070706 |
Total reserves: 0
Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet. Drawing on her long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, Maggie O'Farrell writes Hamnet as a luminous portrait of a marriage and at its heart the loss of a beloved child.
Winner 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction (UK).
Winner 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (US).
