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- ISBN 9781035431335
- Weight: 269g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 23 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The no. 1 bestseller that inspired the major film starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal
✨WINNER: BEST ACTRESS AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS✨
✨WINNER: BEST PICTURE (DRAMA) AND BEST ACTRESS AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES✨
✨WINNER: OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM AND BEST ACTRESS AT THE BAFTAS✨
'A thing of shimmering wonder' David Mitchell
A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.
The untold love story that inspired Shakespeare's greatest masterpiece.
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 tells the powerful story of Agnes and Will, and of the son whose life has been all but forgotten, but who inspired one of the greatest plays ever written.
🌟Fall in love with HAMNET this year 🌟
'HAMNET is a feast for the senses'
'One of my favourite books of the year. Simply gorgeous'
'Words fail me... this story had me feeling everything'
'I read and reread passages throughout this exceptional novel'
✨WINNER: BEST ACTRESS AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS✨
✨WINNER: BEST PICTURE (DRAMA) AND BEST ACTRESS AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES✨
✨WINNER: OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM AND BEST ACTRESS AT THE BAFTAS✨
'A thing of shimmering wonder' David Mitchell
A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.
The untold love story that inspired Shakespeare's greatest masterpiece.
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 tells the powerful story of Agnes and Will, and of the son whose life has been all but forgotten, but who inspired one of the greatest plays ever written.
🌟Fall in love with HAMNET this year 🌟
'HAMNET is a feast for the senses'
'One of my favourite books of the year. Simply gorgeous'
'Words fail me... this story had me feeling everything'
'I read and reread passages throughout this exceptional novel'
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.
