Literary places in Stratford-upon-Avon

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

A retelling of the death of Shakespeare's son, told through his wife Agnes, the herbalist and healer at the centre of the family. The map stays in 1590s Warwickshire: the glover's house on Henley Street where the young family lives in a cramped apartment, the farm at Shottery where Agnes grew up among bees and woodland, the church by the Avon where the boy is buried, and the chapel and grammar school of the town. London, where the father disappears to work in the playhouses, runs alongside as a scene outside the setting.

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