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For me 5 star books are like little jewels...seldom found, but a pure joy in their beauty. This elegantly written book started a bit slow, but gets you immersed really quickly. While seeing the world from the eyes of the main characters ( Agnes, the twins,..) you get shifting and overlapping views on what happens. The marriage, the children, the youth (all of Shakespeare) are an important theme in the book, though the name of the writer is never mentioned in the book.
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Hamnet Shakespeare, who died in 1596 aged 11, was the only son of the playwright. He was born and lived all his short life in Stratford upon Avon with his mother, two sisters, grandparents, and a mostly absent father. That’s about all we know for sure. In this novel, Maggie O’Farrell fleshes out his life and that of his mother, Anne or Agnes.
On an emotional level, I thought this was a wonderful book. Agnes and her husband and children are magnetic characters, and the descriptions brought a Tudo ...more
On an emotional level, I thought this was a wonderful book. Agnes and her husband and children are magnetic characters, and the descriptions brought a Tudo ...more
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