{"product_id":"9781039059054","title":"Hamnet (Movie Tie-in Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed, bestselling author Maggie O’Farrell, a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare’s eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play. Soon to be a major motion picture from Chloé Zhao, Oscar award-winning director of \u003ci\u003eNomadland\u003c\/i\u003e, and starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngland, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting healthy and sick, old and young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young Latin tutor—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 potions 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 taking off when their beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.","brand":"Maggie O'Farrell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":50139783725413,"sku":"9781039059054","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7dba1691-ccba-44aa-bdb1-80b9154cc928.jpg?v=1768599961","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9781039059054","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}