Hamnet / Maggie O'Farrell.
By: O'Farrell, Maggie [author.].
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TextPublisher: London : Tinder Press, 2020Description: 372 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472223821.Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Fiction | Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 -- FictionDDC classification: FIC OFA Awards: WINNER: WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020Summary: Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, HAMNET is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child. 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. Award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell's new novel breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes, and provides vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history.
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First published in US by Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, HAMNET is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child. 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. Award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell's new novel breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes, and provides vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history.
WINNER: WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
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