Hamnet & Judith / Maggie O'Farrell.

By:

O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.Description: 372 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780735280175 (trade pbk.)

Other title:

Hamnet and Judith

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

DDC classification:

[Fic] 23

Awards:

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2020.

Summary: England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an eccentric young woman: a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles on the Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband. His gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when their beloved twins, Hamnet and Judith, are afflicted with the bubonic plague, and, devastatingly, one of them succumbs to the illness.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Fiction	FIC OFA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		33321003198471

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England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an eccentric young woman: a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles on the Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband. His gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when their beloved twins, Hamnet and Judith, are afflicted with the bubonic plague, and, devastatingly, one of them succumbs to the illness.

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2020.

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