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: Agnes is portrayed as an unconventional woman with a talent for medicinal herbs.

: The book portrays loss. One section describes a mother's "emotional feelers" reaching for her children. From Tragedy to Art in Hamnet

The novel explores how personal tragedy fuels creation. Four years after his son's death, the "husband" writes a play called Hamlet —a name that was interchangeable with Hamnet in Elizabethan times. O’Farrell suggests that this act was a way for a grieving father to give his son immortality. The novel is available in digital formats: Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell.epub

The plot follows the courtship of Agnes and her husband and the week in 1596 when the bubonic plague affects their home.

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: Hamnet's twin sister, Judith, first becomes ill. Hamnet later dies from the fever at age 11.

The novel focuses on Agnes, the wife of William Shakespeare. He is referred to as "the father," "the husband," or "the Latin tutor". From Tragedy to Art in Hamnet The novel

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