{"product_id":"hamnet-movie-tie-in-edition-9798217009152","title":"Hamnet (Movie Tie-In Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed, bestselling author Maggie O'Farrell, a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play. Soon to be a major motion picture from Chloé Zhao, Oscar award-winning director of \u003ci\u003eNomadland\u003c\/i\u003e, and starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEngland, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting healthy and sick, old and 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 taking off when their beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.\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 and the Women's Prize for Fiction), \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait, After 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\u003e I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Edinburgh.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51721017360658,"sku":"9798217009152","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5e034e1f-2be1-4b7f-ab53-231ce2cdadc8.jpg?v=1764073937","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hamnet-movie-tie-in-edition-9798217009152","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}