Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell NYRB macabre humor

macabre humor

one of this book’s pleasures is the glimpse it affords into French mores and habits

and a love of recent history and glamour that would come to define his storied career in magazines

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff

Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell NYRB macabre humorTWO 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 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 one of the children will not