Description A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. 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. Customers Also Liked Related products Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Movie Tie-In) Land by Maggie O’Farrell Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell Reviews