Hamnet

Agnes, a peculiar girl who seems to be accountable to no one and who is capable of creating mysterious remedies with simple combinations of plants, is the talk of Stratford, a small town in England. When she meets a young Latin tutor just as extraordinary as she is, she quickly realizes that they are called to start a family. But her marriage will be put to the test, first by her relatives and then by unexpected misfortune. Drawing from Shakespeare's family history, Maggie O'Farrell travels between fiction and reality to trace a hypnotic recreation of the event that inspired one of the most famous literary works of all time. The author, far from focusing solely on known events, tenderly vindicates the unforgettable figures that inhabit the margins of history and delves into the small great questions of any existence: family life, affection, pain and loss. The result is a prodigious novel that has garnered enormous international success and confirms O'Farrell as one of the brightest voices in English literature today.