Hamnet

Miraculous. . . . Brilliant. . . . A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer or curse. The Washington Post The extraordinarily received, deeply moving novel from the acclaimed author of I Am, I Am, I Am about the death of Shakespeares elevenyearold son Hamneta name interchangeable with Hamlet in fifteenthcentury Britainand the years leading up to the production of his great play. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you. he Boston Globe England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an everpresent threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutorenniless and bullied by a violent fatheralls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family 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 StratforduponAvon, 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.