Hamnet / Maggie O'Farrell.
By: O'Farrell, Maggie [author.]
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Publisher: London, England : Tinder Press, 2021Copyright date: �2020Description: 372 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472223821; 1472223829.Subject(s): Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 -- Fiction | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Family -- Fiction | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet -- Fiction | Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 | Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) | 1500-1599 | Families -- Fiction | Playwriting -- Fiction | Familles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Creation dramatique -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Families | Playwriting | Stratford-upon-Avon (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction | England -- Stratford-upon-AvonGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | Historical fiction. | Biographical fiction.Summary: On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week. Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.
Originally published: 2020.
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week. Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.
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