Maggie O’Farrell joins Cathy Rentzenbrink to talk about Hamnet, her stunning new departure in fiction - the heart-wrenching story behind Shakespeare’s most famous play. Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright. It is the story of the bond between twins, and of a marriage pushed to the brink by grief.
‘Heart-stopping. Hamnet does for the Shakespeare story what Jean Rhys did for Jane Eyre’ Patrick Gale.
Maggie O’Farrell is the award-winning author of eight novels and the Sunday Times no 1 bestselling memoir I Am, I Am, I Am. Cathy Rentzenbrink is the author of The Last Act of Love and a Manual for Heartache.
