{"product_id":"hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell-trade-paperback","title":"Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell - Trade Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • Now a major motion picture starring ACADEMY AWARD® winner Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by Chloé Zhao.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Marriage Portrait delivers 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 Hamlet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\" —Ron Charles, The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45115036729459,"sku":"9781984898876","price":995.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/1041\/4963\/files\/9781984898876-01.jpg?v=1784773875","url":"https:\/\/nationalbookstore.com\/products\/hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell-trade-paperback","provider":"National Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}