WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION – THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER 2021<\/b>
‘Richly sensuous… something special’ The Sunday Times<\/i><\/b>
‘A thing of shimmering wonder’ David Mitchell<\/b><\/p>\n
TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.<\/b><\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London.<\/p>\n
Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week.<\/p>\n
Hamnet<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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