There, with the company of a loyal dog, he builds a hut and lives alone, testing himself against the elements. But his time as a miner ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, and Sven flees even further, to an uninhabited fjord. In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. This entry was posted in Lecture & Literature, Writing and tagged Arts Escape, book club, book discussion, book discussion group, free, Hamnet, June, Maggie O'Farrell, southbury, virtual book club, Zoom on Apby artsescape. Participants must register by Tuesday, June 14 to receive the Zoom link.īook Club is free and limited to 12 attendees. Southbury Library will be holding copies of this book for the AE Book Club. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet.Īward-winning author Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes and provides an unforgettable vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history.Ī New York Times Notable Book (2020), Best Book of 2020: Guardian, Financial Times, Literary Hub, and NPR. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. She settles with her husband in Henley Street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. Drawing on Maggie O’Farrell’s long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play, Hamnet is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child.
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