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| 020 | _a9781984898876 | ||
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| 050 | _aPR6065.F36 | ||
| 082 | _a823.914 | ||
| 100 | 1 | _aMaggie O'Farrell | |
| 245 | 1 | _aHamnet | |
| 260 | _bKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group | ||
| 300 | _a320 pages | ||
| 520 | _aWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDÂ *A New York Times Best Seller* "Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare's life . . . here is a novel . . . so gorgeously written that it transports you." --The Boston Globe England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor--penniless and bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. | ||
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