Author

Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell is the Northern Irish novelist behind Hamnet (2020, Women's Prize), The Marriage Portrait (2022), This Must Be the Place (2016), and the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am (2017). Hamnet is the canonical contemporary historical novel about Shakespeare's family and one of the most celebrated literary novels of the 2020s.

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5.0

First published

2020

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Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 2020 review. The death of William Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son and the four years before Hamlet is written. The Women's Prize winning novel about marriage, grief, and the play that came out of it.