Hamnet, 9781350455498
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Love, loss, and the birth of wonder in Shakespeare’s family.
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    112 pages

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    4 December 2023

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Summary

Hamnet: A Love Letter to Passion, Birth, and Grief

‘She’s like no one I’ve ever met… She’s like fire and water all at once.’

Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family.

As William moves to London to discover his place in the world of theatre, Agnes stays at home to raise their three children but she is the constant prese…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781350455498
ISBN-10:1350455490
Author:Maggie O'Farrell, Lolita Chakrabarti
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Methuen Drama
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:4 December 2023
Weight:120g
Dimensions:202mm x 128mm x 10mm
Series:Modern Plays
About The Author

Maggie O'Farrell

Lolita Chakrabarti is a British actress and writer who has worked extensively on stage and screen. Writing credits include The Goddess for Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, Faith, Hope and Blue Charity, also on BBC Radio 4 and Last Seen - Joy for Slung Low and the Almeida. In 2012, Red Velvet was the first play performed under the Tricycle’s new artistic director Indhu Rubasingham. It returned to the Tricycle in 2014 before having its US premiere at St Ann’s Warehouse New York. Lolita Chakrabarti also runs Lesata Productions with Rosa Maggiora.

Maggie O’Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You’d Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.

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