✍️ Maggie O'Farrell
11 titles · Historical Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction
Hamnet
🌶️ · 320p
The story of Shakespeare's son Hamnet's death and how it shaped the creation of Hamlet. A luminous meditation on love, loss, and the power of art.
Hamnet
🌶️ · 320p
The story of Shakespeare's son Hamnet's death and its impact on his family. O'Farrell imagines the grief behind the creation of Hamlet with stunning prose.
Hamnet
🌶️ · 320p
Shakespeare's son Hamnet dies at age eleven. His wife Agnes watches it happen. O'Farrell turns grief into the most luminous prose you'll read all year. Winner of the Women's Prize.
Hamnet
🌶️ · 320p
Shakespeare's son Hamnet dies of plague at age 11. His wife Agnes is left behind. O'Farrell writes the grief so precisely you feel it in your chest. Won the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Hamnet
🌶️ · 320p
Shakespeare's son Hamnet died at 11. Three years later, Hamlet was written. This novel imagines the grief between those events. The prose is so beautiful it hurts to read.
Hamnet
🌶️ · 320p
Shakespeare's son Hamnet dies at eleven. His wife Agnes grieves while her husband writes Hamlet. O'Farrell takes a footnote of history and makes you feel every single loss.
Hamnet
🌶️ · 320p
Shakespeare's son dies of plague at eleven. This novel barely mentions Shakespeare by name — it's Agnes's story, the mother who loses everything. Every page is soaked in grief and beauty.
Hamnet
🌶️ · 320p
Shakespeare's son Hamnet dies at eleven. This isn't about Shakespeare — it's about Agnes, his wife, and the grief that becomes Hamlet. The most beautiful prose you'll read all year.
Hamnet
🌶️ · 320p
The story of Shakespeare's son Hamnet, who died at 11 and inspired Hamlet. But this isn't Shakespeare's story — it's Agnes's, his wife. A meditation on grief and art that is achingly precise.
Hamnet
🌶️ · 320p
Shakespeare's son Hamnet dies at eleven. His wife Agnes feels it before the news arrives. A novel about grief, marriage, and how art is born from loss. Devastatingly gorgeous prose.
The Marriage Portrait
🌶️ · 352p
Renaissance Italy. Lucrezia de' Medici realizes her husband brought her to a remote villa not for a holiday — but to kill her. O'Farrell makes 16th-century marriage the most terrifying horror.