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_aPR6065.F36 _bH35 2021 |
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_aO'Farrell, Maggie _d1972- _eauthor _923612 |
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_aHamnet _c/ Maggie O'Farrell. |
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_aLondon : _bTinder Press, _c2021. |
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_a372 pages ; _c20 cm. |
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500 | _aOriginally published: 2020. | ||
500 | _a"First published in paperback in 2021 by Tinder Press"--Title page verso. | ||
520 | _aA thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father — falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down — a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists. | ||
586 | _aWomen's prize for fiction, 2020 | ||
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_aStratford-upon-Avon (England) _xHistory _y16th century _vFiction _923614 |
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