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Hamnet

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
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A BRAND NEW RECORDING, NARRATED BY JESSIE BUCKLEY.

'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times
'A thing of shimmering wonder' David Mitchell

TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.

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?

Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London.

Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week.

Hamnet 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.

WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER 2021
WINNER: WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER: FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER'S CHOICE AWARD
AS FEATURED ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS
SHORTLISTED: AN POST IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR, WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION

©2020 Maggie O'Farrell (P)2025 Headline Publishing Group Limited Biographical Fiction Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Renaissance Small Town & Rural Fiction
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only that it ended..was fantastic....an incredible illumination into possibilities and wakefulness and the subdued messages developed learned or instinctive. was deeply unusual ..I want to absorb it again....

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Jessie Buckley is excellent reading this book that I love. O’Farrell’s book is a masterpiece, simple but so poetic, it speaks so eloquently for those who grieve. But here Jessie Buckley’s performance is full of understanding, of the meaning of these words. Impeccable.

A magnificent book, and magnificently read here.

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I loved Jessie Buckley’s narration. It’s just like being there and part of the story.

Maggie’s amazing words. It was just tremendous.

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What a great story, so brutal and moving and tender. I am crying and not only because I have just finished it…

So well read by Jessie Buckley.

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