Hamnet

Categories: Literature & Fiction

A novel imagining the life of Shakespeare's wife Agnes and the death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet from plague, and how that loss may have inspired Hamlet.

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• Bill Gates: “Maggie O'Farrell's novel Hamnet is the latest, and I thought it was a beautiful, well-written look at how grief tears a family apart.”