Episode 29 - Hamnet

This month's feature book was on many top lists for 2020, not to mention Maggie O'Farrell was at Adelaide Writers' Week this year discussing it. Jayne and Paula dig into this fictional account of the short life of Shakespeare's only son who died at age 11. Books they mention: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell The Vanishing Act by Maggie O'Farrell The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg And Now We Have Everything by Meghan O'Connell Atomic Habits by James Clear The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Phosphorescence by Julia Baird A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams The Husband Poisoner by Tanya Bretherton The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende The Performance by Claire Thomas My Daughter's Wedding by Gretel Killeen Plays they mention: Macbeth by William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Hamlet by William Shakespeare Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Movies they mention: Romeo + Juliet Links to articles they mention: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56035796 https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/books/a35492569/romance-novels-power-importance-bridgerton/ Our book for next month is The Duke and I by Julia Quinn. Happy reading!