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Hamnet & Judith / Maggie O'Farrell.
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.
"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, 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 with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. 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 masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists"-- Provided by publisher.
Détails de la notice
- ISBN : 9780735280175 (paperback)
- Description physique : 372 pages ; 21 cm
- Éditeur : Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
- Droit d'auteur: ©2020.
Descriptions du contenu
- Note générale :
- Some editions published as: Hamnet : a novel of the plague.
- Note sur les prix décernés:
- Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2020.
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- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Fiction.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Family > Fiction.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Hamlet > Fiction.
Hathaway, Anne, 1556?-1623 > Fiction.
Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 > Fiction.
Playwriting > Fiction.
Spouses > Fiction.
Children > Death > Fiction.
Twins > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Bereavement > Fiction.
Plague > England > 16th century > Fiction.
England > 16th century > Fiction.
Stratford Upon Avon (England) > History > 16th century > Fiction. - Genre :
- Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
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