Book: Hamnet
Author: Maggie O'Farrell
Pages: 320
This is my 217th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, and ever-present threat, infection the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin ttor - penniless and bullied by a violent father - falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and poitons better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to a sudden fever.
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