Hamnet

De: Maggie O'Farrell

Narrado por: Jessie Buckley

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time. • “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

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn.

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.

©2020 Maggie O'Farrell (P)2025 Random House Audio

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of the Year • Book Club Pick: Duchess Camilla Parker Bowles’ The Reading Room

"O'Farrell has a melodic relationship to language. There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world. . . . We can smell the tang of the various new leathers in the glover's workshop, the fragrance of the apples racked a finger-width apart in the winter storage shed. . . . As the book unfolds, it brings its story to a tender and ultimately hopeful conclusion: that even the greatest grief, the most damaged marriage, and most shattered heart might find some solace, some healing."—Geraldine Brooks, the New York Times Book Review

“All too timely . . . inspired. . . . [An] exceptional historical novel”—The New Yorker

Narrator was beyond wonderful!!! Brought the words to life.

This author is a favorite. Her descriptive prose is delicious, her characters multi-dimensional yet straightforward, and choosing to never use the name Shakespeare reveals her total commitment to the story, not the subject.

Very Enjoyable

This was a great story with absolutely phenomenal narration. I really enjoyed the listening experience.

Tudor England as the backdrop for universal timeless truths. The best I’ve listened to in years.

“This is a work of historical fiction,” says the author. And so it is, but also so much more. It transcends that genre or any; it is a tale of grief, loss, complex relationship, self-determination, and redemption. A tale of human inadequacy, but striving. That Shakespeare is never named is such a stunning choice. Absolute brilliance. I love Agnes so dearly and relate to her so strongly. All of the characters though are so truly richly drawn. It absolutely transports you to tutoring England. But the themes are more than relevant for the current-day reader. The narration is subtle perfection, not only channeling the absolute beauty of the language of the prose, but breathing life into the spaces between the words.

Full of magic and love

Such a lovely and heartbreaking story of love and grief and beauty. Jessie Buckley is a wonderful performer!

Heart blown open

Thank you Maggie, thank you Jessie for every beautiful tear. This was one of the best literary experiences I’ve ever had. 🥲🙏

So emotional!

I can’t believe how alive the book became after listening to this version, I read it when it first was published and am stunned at impact this reading had on me.

slow slow slow

The narrator sounds like they are in pain and the story is so slow had it not been a book club choice I would have tapped out.