Hamnet
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
By: Maggie O'Farrell
Paperback | 30 March 2021 | Edition Number 1
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ISBN: 9781472223821
ISBN-10: 1472223829
Published: 30th March 2021
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 384
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Headline
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 19.5 x 12.5 x 3.5
Weight (kg): 0.34
What is Hamnet about?
In Stratford-upon-Avon in 1596, a young girl falls ill and her twin brother Hamnet searches for help. Their mother Agnes is a mile away and their father is in London. Hamnet will not survive the week.
Is Hamnet about Shakespeare?
Yes, though he is never named. The novel imagines the life of Shakespeare's family and the loss of his son Hamnet, whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.
What awards has Hamnet won?
The Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 and the Books Are My Bag Reader's Choice Award. It was shortlisted for An Post Novel of the Year.
Who is Maggie O'Farrell?
Maggie O'Farrell is an award-winning Northern Irish novelist whose books include The Marriage Portrait, I Am, I Am, I Am and Instructions for a Heatwave.
Has Hamnet been adapted?
Yes. A film adaptation directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal was released in 2025.
Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, and eight novels: After You'd Gone, My Lover's Lover, The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, Instructions for a Heatwave, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, This Must Be the Place, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award, and Hamnet, winner of the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Edinburgh.
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