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Hamnet : a novel of the plague / Maggie O'Farrell.

by O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-

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Thorndike Press/Gale, 2021.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Fiction.

Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 -- Fiction.

Women's Prize for Fiction.

9781432887551 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Hamnet & Judith.

Large print ed.

521 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

Regular print ed. published in North America as: Hamnet & Judith.

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.

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2020.

Historical fiction.

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