TY - BOOK AU - Maggie O'Farrell TI - Hamnet SN - 9781472223791 U1 - 823.914 PY - 2020/// CY - Great Britain PB - Tinder Press KW - KW - Fiction/Literacy KW - Biographical fiction N2 - aEngland, 1580. A young Latin tutor-- penniless, bullied by a violent father-- falls in love with an eccentric young woman who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford. She becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when their young son succumbs to bubonic plague. -- adapted from jacket ER -