Hamnet
2020 • 321 pages

Ratings157

Average rating4.2

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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.
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I loved the book, but I hated that the author gave Shakespeare's wife super powers.

April 28, 2022
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O surpriza placuta si din ce am inteles, cat se poate de exacta din punct de vedere al intamplarilor din viata reala.

February 17, 2022

This is a book about loss, about a mother's love for her children, and also a glimpse ito what life was like in the 16th century in rural England.

It won the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction, and while I don't think it was must read, I do think it was a good read!

May 9, 2022

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