TY - BOOK AU - O'Farrell, Maggie TI - Hamnet SN - 9781472223821 U1 - 823.914 OFA PB - London: Tinder Press, 2021 KW - Historical fiction KW - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Fiction KW - Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 -- Fiction N2 - 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 is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written ER -