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Hamnet : Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 - Maggie O'Farrell

Hamnet

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020

By: Maggie O'Farrell

Paperback | 14 January 2026 | Edition Number 1

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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Books Are My Bag Reader's Choice Award
Shortlisted, An Post Novel of the Year

Two 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 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.

Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week.

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.
Industry Reviews
A masterpiece. Historical fiction at its finest

A rich imagining of the lives of Shakespeare's family enchants... O'Farrell's remarkable novel bursts with life - Sunday Telegraph

Stunning... immersive and compelling

Blisteringly brilliant - Cosmopolitan

We will be reading this in a hundred years

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