The no. 1 bestseller that inspired the major film starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.

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 tells the story of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written. It is also the story of a marriage, of a couple brought together by love and curiosity, and pulled apart by grief. Inspired by the son Shakespeare lost, Maggie O’Farrell’s breathtaking novel is a luminous portrait of a family and a tender exploration of how art can emerge from sorrow.

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