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020			_a9781472223821 _qpaperback
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082			_aFIC OFA
100	1		_aO'Farrell, Maggie, _d1972- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHamnet / _cMaggie O'Farrell.
264		1	_aLondon : _bTinder Press, _c2020.
300			_a372 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_aFirst published in US by Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
520			_aDrawing 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.
586			_aWINNER: WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
600	1	0	_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616 _vFiction.
600	1	0	_aShakespeare, Hamnet, _d1585-1596 _vFiction.
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