Hamnet
About this book
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.
Subjects
- english literature
- families
- family
- fiction
- fiction, biographical
- fiction, historical
- fiction / historical / general
- fiction / literary
- hamlet (shakespeare, william)
- history
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2020-12-27
- plague
- playwriting
- spouses