| Record Number |
824155 |
| ISBN |
9781472223807 (paperback) |
| 9781472223821 (paperback) |
| Author |
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author. |
| Title |
Hamnet / Maggie O'Farrell. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Tinder Press, 2020. |
| ©2020 |
| Pagination etc. |
372 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject - Name |
Shakespeare, Hamnet, -- 1585-1596 -- Fiction |
| Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Family -- Fiction |
| Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Hamlet -- Fiction |
| Subject |
Families -- Fiction |
| Spouses -- Fiction |
| Playwriting -- Fiction |
| Stratford-upon-Avon (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction |
| Historical fiction. |
| Biographical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F OFAR |
