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- Bill Gates: "I thought it was a beautiful, well-written look at how grief tears a family apart." source ↗
Summary
Maggie O'Farrell's novel imagines the life of William Shakespeare's family in Stratford, focusing on the death of his eleven-year-old son Hamnet from bubonic plague and the grief that reshaped the household. The book re-creates the marriage of Shakespeare and Agnes Hathaway and the loss that inspired the playwright's masterpiece Hamlet.