NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER - "Of all the stories that argue and speculate about
Shakespeare's life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it
transports you." --The Boston Globe
In 1580's England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in
love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this "exceptional
historical novel" (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the
Women's Prize for Fiction.
Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on
her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts
as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does
people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in
Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a
steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose
career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son
succumbs to sudden fever.
A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family
ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining
of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given
to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is
mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent leap
forward from one of our most gifted novelists.
Don't miss Maggie O'Farrell's new novel, The Marriage Portrait!
