{"product_id":"hamnet-9780525657606","title":"Hamnet","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait \u003c\/i\u003edelivers a\u003cb\u003e luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time. \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare's life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoon to be a major motion picture directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEngland, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMAGGIE O'FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), \u003ci\u003eAfter You'd Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hand That First Held Mine\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and \u003ci\u003eInstructions for a Heatwave\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written a memoir, \u003ci\u003eI Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Edinburgh.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613750366482,"sku":"9780525657606","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77c46904-7c61-41de-ac36-a83e7a65917a.jpg?v=1764072757","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hamnet-9780525657606","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}