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Hamnet

Hamnet

Current price: $26.95
Publication Date: October 4th, 2022
Publisher:
Batiscafo
ISBN:
9788417977580
Pages:
352

I loved Hamnet in very much the same way I loved Lincoln in the Bardo. This novel explores the way the dead haunt the living—especially how the death of a child haunts their parents—and does it in the context of a fascinating historical figure and time. But we know so much about the Lincolns, and so little about the Shakespeares. Maggie O’Farrell’s ability to construct a palpably real emotional life for all the members of the Shakespeare family—but especially for Shakespeare’s wife—is just magical. This is a powerful and haunting novel.

Nina Barrett, Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston, IL
August 2020 Indie Next List