Maggie O'Farrell

Hamnet

Anne Hathaway recounts her silent life as the wife of Shakespeare

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Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell

Irish-British novelist whose fiction explores trauma, grief, and female experience across historical periods. Hamnet, about Shakespeare's son's death, won the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is one of the most popular and critically admired British novelists of her generation.

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