Hamnet_(novel)
Hamnet (novel)
2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell
Hamnet is a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It is a fictional account of William Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age eleven in 1596, focusing on his parents' grief. In Canada, the novel was published under the title Hamnet & Judith.[1]
In 2020, the book won the Women's Prize for Fiction[2] and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; that December, it was also chosen as Waterstones' Book Of The Year.[3] The following year, it was named "Novel of the Year" at the Dalkey Literary Awards,[4] was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize,[5] and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.[6] It was described in Literary Review as "a rich story by any stretch of the imagination, and O'Farrell's stretches much, much further than most of ours."[7]