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Hamnet
Historical Fiction
A novel of the family Shakespeare left behind — wife Agnes and the eleven-year-old son who died in 1596, four years before Hamlet was written. Shakespeare's name never appears; grief is the book's real subject.
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Bill Gates
“a beautiful, well-written look at how grief tears a family apart”
Dedicated gatesnotes review. Gates was struck that O'Farrell never names Shakespeare in the entire novel.