Hamnet

Winner Of The 2020 Women's Prize For Fiction - The No. 1 Bestseller 2021 'richly Sensuous... Something Special' The Sunday Times 'a Thing Of Shimmering Wonder' David Mitchell Two Extraordinary People. A Love That Draws Them Together. A Loss That Threatens To Tear Them Apart. On A Summer's Day In 1596, A Young Girl In Stratford-Upon-Avon Takes To Her Bed With A Sudden Fever. Her Twin Brother, Hamnet, Searches Everywhere For Help. Why Is Nobody At Home? Their Mother, Agnes, Is Over A Mile Away, In The Garden Where She Grows Medicinal Herbs. Their Father Is Working In London. Neither Parent Knows That Hamnet Will Not Survive The Week. Hamnet Is A Novel Inspired By The Son Of A Famous Playwright: A Boy Whose Life Has Been All But Forgotten, But Whose Name Was Given To One Of The Most Celebrated Plays Ever Written. Winner: Women's Prize For Fiction Winner: Fiction Book Of The Year, British Book Awards Winner: Books Are My Bag Reader's Choice Award As Featured On Bbc2's Between The Covers Shortlisted: An Post Irish Novel Of The Year, Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction Stunning . The Writing Is Exquisite, Immersive And Compelling ... Deserves To Win Prizesthe Story Of Hamnet Shakespeare Has Been Waiting In The Shadows For Over Four Hundred Years. Maggie O'farrell Brings It Dazzlingly, Devastatingly , Into The Lightgrief And Loss So Finely Written I Could Hardly Bear To Read It