{"product_id":"hamnet-pb","title":"Hamnet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait \u003c\/i\u003edelivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Miraculous... brilliant... A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer -- or curse... A richly drawn and intimate portrait of 16th-century English life set against the arrival of one devastating death.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEngland, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMAGGIE O'FARRELL \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), \u003ci\u003eAfter You'd Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hand That First Held Mine\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and \u003ci\u003eInstructions for a Heatwave\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written a memoir, \u003ci\u003eI Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Edinburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MAGGIE O'FARRELL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711061217565,"sku":"9781984898876","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781984898876.jpg?v=1709482021","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/hamnet-pb","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}