Hamnet

Resumen del libro

Winner of the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Maggie O'Farrell x{0026}lt;/B nació en Irlanda del Norte en 1972 y creció en Gales y Escocia. Tras el éxito de su galardonada primera novela, x{0026}lt;I After You'd Gone,x{0026}lt;/I abandonó su carrera de periodista para consagrarse a la escritura. A su primer libro seguirían: x{0026}lt;I My Lover's Loverx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I The Distance Between Usx{0026}lt;/I , nominada al Somerset Maugham Award. x{0026}lt;I La extraña desaparición de Esme Lennoxx{0026}lt;/I es su cuarta novela y ha sido elegida Mejor Libro del Año por el x{0026}lt;I Washington Postx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P