Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell was the Winner Of The 2020 Women's Prize For Fiction. 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. 'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times. 'A thing of shimmering wonder' David Mitchell. Paperback 384 pages. Approx: 12.9 x 19.7 cm.
