01789cam a2200373 i 4500 21123410 20260122125614.0 190807s2020 nyu 000 1 eng 2019030390 9781472223821 (paperback) 21123410 DLC eng DLC rda DLC AU pcc Alfaisal Main Library PR6065.F36 H35 2021 O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author. Hamnet : a novel of the plague / Maggie O'Farrell. First American edition. 2020. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©2021 372 pages 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "This is A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. 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 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Fiction. Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 Fiction. Biographical fiction. gsafd Fiction. lcgft Print books. 4 Online version: O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- Hamnet New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 9780525657613 (DLC) 2019030391 lcc BOOKS 608318 608318 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2026-01-22 0 PR6065.F36 H35 2021 AU00000000021266 2026-01-22 12:57:55 105.00 2026-01-22 BOOKS