Hamnet

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2020 by Maggie O’Farrell

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Tinder Press, an imprint of Headline Publishing Group, a Hachette UK Company, London, in 2020.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: O’Farrell, Maggie, 1972– author.

Title: Hamnet / Maggie O’Farrell.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2019030390 (print) | LCCN 2019030391 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780525657606 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525657613 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Fiction. | Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585–1596—Fiction. | GSAFD: Biographical fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6065.F36 H35 2020 (print) | LCC PR6065.F36 (ebook) | DDC 823/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2019030390

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2019030391

Ebook ISBN 9780525657613

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover images: Boy with Flute by Christian Seybold (detail). bpk Bildagentur / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen / Art Resource, NY; (feather) Juj Winn / Getty Images

Cover design by John Gall

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