[CANCELED] Thursday Night Fiction Book Club (Hamnet)

Join us on the first Thursday of every month to chat about popular fiction in our Thursday Night Fiction book club! Books are picked based on what our community wants to read, so suggestions are always welcome.  Refreshments will be provided, so to help ensure we have enough for everyone, please make sure to register! 

This month we will be reading Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

About the Book

Drawing on Maggie O’Farrell’s long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play, Hamnet is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child.

Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet.

Award-winning author Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes, and provides an unforgettable vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history.