{"product_id":"hamnet","title":"Hamnet","description":"\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time. • “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you.\" —The Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon to be a major motion picture directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngland, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Inchstone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64472561811825,"sku":"9780525657606","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/7420\/6321\/files\/9780525657606.jpg?v=1787936865","url":"https:\/\/inchstonebooks.com\/products\/hamnet","provider":"Inchstone Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}