TY - BOOK AU - O'Farrell,Maggie TI - Hamnet: a novel of the plague SN - 9781472223821 AV - PR6065.F36 H35 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - Shakespeare, Hamnet, KW - Biographical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Fiction KW - lcgft KW - Print books N1 - "This is A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso N2 - 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 ER -