In her profound study of grief and love, longlisted for the Women's prize, O'Farrell explores the lives of the playwright's family and the death of his only son In Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell has placed the bit players of the Shakespeare story centre stage, while the dramatist himself is never even named. This is primarily a portrait of a woman and her three children. In her foreword, O'Farrell explains that ever since …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM on March 26, 2020