Hamnet: A novel
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | O'Farrell, Maggie |
| Subject: | FICTION / General |
| FICTION / Historical | |
| FICTION / Literary | |
| LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare | |
| Awards: | Irish Novel of the Year (2020) Short-listed Women's Prize for Fiction (2020) Winner National Book Critics Circle Awards (2020) Short-listed |
| Publisher: | Knopf Random Vintage Canada |
| Published: | May 2021 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Size: | 8.00in x 5.18in |
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| From The Publisher* | WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] exceptional winner.... It expresses something profound about the human experience that seems both extraordinarily current and at the same time, enduring." --Martha Lane Fox, Chair of The Women's Prize for Fiction judges TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A PLAGUE THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an 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 on the Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband. His gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when their beloved twins, Hamnet and Judith, are afflicted with the bubonic plague, and, devastatingly, one of them succumbs to the illness. 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 literary masterpieces of all time, Hamnet & Judith is mesmerizing and seductive, an impossible-to-put-down novel from one of our most gifted writers. Published as Hamnet in the US and the UK. |
| Review Quote* | "A thing of shimmering wonder." -David Mitchell "The story of Hamnet Shakespeare has been waiting in the shadows for over four hundred years. Maggie O'Farrell brings it dazzlingly, devastatingly, into the light." -Kamila Shamsie "Stunning. The writing is exquisite, immersive and compelling . . . deserves to win prizes." -Marian Keyes "Heartstopping. Hamnet & Judith does for the Shakespeare story what Jean Rhys did for Jane Eyre, inhabiting, enlarging and enriching it in ways that will alter the reader's view for ever." -Patrick Gale "Grief and loss so finely written I could hardly bear to read it." -Sarah Moss |
| Biographical Note | Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, MAGGIE O'FARRELL grew up in Wales and Scotland and now lives in Edinburgh. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone (2000), won a Betty Trask Award and was followed by My Lover's Lover (2002); The Distance Between Us (2004), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006); Costa Book Award winner The Hand That First Held Mine (2010); Instructions for a Heatwave (2013); This Must Be the Place (2016); and most recently, the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am (2018). |