Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell. Published by Tinder Press, London, 2020. Signed, Limited First Edition. Number 871 of 1500 copies Independent Bookstore Edition. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 384pp. Red cloth boards with gilt design to front, gilt spine titles, decorated endpapers. In fine, unread condition and housed in a fine dustjacket.
Hamnet is a fictional account of William Shakespeare and Agnes Hathaway’s son, Hamnet, who died at the age of eleven in 1596. O’Farrell’s novel won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020 and the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. O’Farrell co-adapted the book for the screen with Chloé Zhao in 2025, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.
