Name: Hamnet
Price: 14.57 GBP
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Author: Maggie O'Farrell
ISBN: 9781984898876

Type

Physical Book

Author

Maggie O'Farrell

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.1 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781984898876

Synopsis "Hamnet"

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare's life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you." --The Boston Globe England, 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. A 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. Don't miss Maggie O'Farrell's new novel, The Marriage Portrait!

Maggie O'Farrell

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(Coleraine, Irlanda del Norte, 1972). Periodista y escritora irlandesa. Ha trabajado como periodista en Hong Kong y también como redactora literaria en The Independent. Entre sus numerosas novelas, se encuentra The Distance Between Us (2004), ganadora del premio Somerset Maugham; La primera mano que sostuvo la mía, ganadora del premio Costa de novela y el Bestseller internacional Hamnet, galardonada con el Women’s Prize for Fiction y el National Book Critics Circle Award.

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