{"product_id":"hamnet","title":"Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - Now a major motion picture starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by ACADEMY AWARD(R) winner Chloé Zhao.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait \u003c\/i\u003edelivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Miraculous... brilliant... A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer -- or curse... A richly drawn and intimate portrait of 16th-century English life set against the arrival of one devastating death.\" --Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngland, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young Latin tutor--penniless and bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. 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 just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"O'Farrell has a melodic relationship to language. There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world. . . . We can smell the tang of the various new leathers in the glover's workshop, the fragrance of the apples racked a finger-width apart in the winter storage shed. . . . As the book unfolds, it brings its story to a tender and ultimately hopeful conclusion: that even the greatest grief, the most damaged marriage, and most shattered heart might find some solace, some healing.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Geraldine Brooks, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"All too timely . . . inspired. . . . [An] exceptional historical novel \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Magnificent and searing. . . . A family saga so bursting with life, touched by magic, and anchored in affection. . . . Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare's life, about whether he even wrote his own plays, here is a novel that matches him with a woman overwhelmingly more than worthy.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A tour de force. . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e vividly captures the life-changing intensity of maternity in its myriad stages--from the pain of childbirth to the unassuagable grief of loss. Fierce emotions and lyrical prose are what we've come to expect of O'Farrell.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--NPR\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"O'Farrell moves through the family's pain like a master of signs and signals. . . . In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, art imitates life not to co-opt reality, but to help us bear it.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Wholly original, fully engrossing. . . . Agnes is a character for the ages--engimatic, fully formed and nearly literally bewitching to behold in every scene she's in.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A moving portrait of a mother's grief. . . . O'Farrell's prose is characteristically beautiful.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMAGGIE O'FARRELL\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter You'd Gone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hand That First Held Mine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eInstructions for a Heatwave\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She has also written a memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She lives in Edinburgh.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVintage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePub Date: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMay 18, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781984898876\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e320 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003epaperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45549873070266,"sku":"9781984898876","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_240568c4-ee9b-4a21-9004-53c77270cd3f.jpg?v=1769771535","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/hamnet","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}