Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell | Literature & Fiction |
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Registered by wingCassiopaeiawing of Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on 5/6/2021
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Journal Entry 1 by wingCassiopaeiawing from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Thursday, May 6, 2021
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On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden 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.

Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

Journal Entry 2 by wingCassiopaeiawing at Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Thursday, May 6, 2021

Released 3 yrs ago (5/6/2021 UTC) at Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 3 by wingApoloniaXwing at Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on Friday, June 11, 2021
Thank you so much!
This might have arrived even two or three weeks ago at my office, but I hadn't been there for quite a while.
Looking forward to reading it!

Journal Entry 4 by wingApoloniaXwing at Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on Saturday, June 26, 2021
This was a good read - it's very well written and drew me right in, sometimes it was hard to put down. The Title Hamnet is a bit misleading, because the novel's main protagonist is Hamnet's mother Agnes, an enigmatic character. At first I was irritated: Shakespeare's wife was Anne Hathaway - but then I read on Wikipedia that her father called her Agnes in his will. O'Farrell draws a fascinating picture or her, of how she might have been - and of what life was like in the late 16th century in Elizabethan England, village life, the threat of the plague. Interesting - in a creepy way - was also the description of the journey of a certain flea that carried the plague bacteria.
Very recommendable!

Journal Entry 5 by wingApoloniaXwing at Neukölln, Berlin Germany on Sunday, September 12, 2021

Released 3 yrs ago (9/12/2021 UTC) at Neukölln, Berlin Germany

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Given to a friend from the Silent Book Club.
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Journal Entry 6 by AnitaBC at Neukölln, Berlin Germany on Friday, February 11, 2022
Received it from a friend last September at the Silent Book Club :)

Journal Entry 7 by AnitaBC at Neukölln, Berlin Germany on Friday, March 4, 2022
What a wonderful book! Agnes is such a brilliant character, and as the story moves forward over years and decades, I was deeply interested in how the relationships of all the female characters (children, young and adult women) – with themselves and each other – developed. I also loved reading in the Author's Note and Acknowledgments about the research process conducted by Maggie O'Farrell while working on the book, and took note of some intriguing titles she read to learn more about herbal science and Tudor times.

Thank you Cassiopaeia and ApoloniaX for the great read!

Journal Entry 8 by AnitaBC at The Maldron in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Sunday, July 24, 2022

Released 2 yrs ago (7/29/2022 UTC) at The Maldron in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom

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Released at the BC Unconvention 2022 :)
Wishing you a wonderful read!

Journal Entry 9 by wingrahar109wing at Ash Vale, Surrey United Kingdom on Friday, July 29, 2022
Picked up from the book buffet.

Journal Entry 10 by wingrahar109wing at Ash Vale, Surrey United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 15, 2025
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which so transported me back to the 16th century that I could almost smell it. The book is more about Shakespeare's wife Agnes (Anne), but Hamnet's presence is felt everywhere.

Journal Entry 11 by wingrahar109wing at Ash Vale, Surrey United Kingdom on Monday, January 20, 2025

Released 4 wks ago (1/21/2025 UTC) at Ash Vale, Surrey United Kingdom

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Sent to daffodil-2 as part of the Reading it, Want It game.
Enjoy!

Journal Entry 12 by daffodil-2 at Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom on Friday, January 24, 2025
Received in the post today from Rahar109 as a RABCK .
Thanks very much.
I’ve read and enjoyed several other books by this author so I’m looking forward to reading this one asap.

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