Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell NYRB macabre humor

macabre humor

is unaware of danger and seems to have at least one extra sense

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff

and a love of recent history and glamour that would come to define his storied career in magazines

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell NYRB macabre humorTWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford upon Avon takes to her bed with a 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 one of the children will not