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Posted On: October 28th 2026, 05:00 pm
📖 Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
This book broke and healed my heart at the same time❤️🩹
Going into this I thought we would focus on Hamnet or Shakespeare, but our main character was Agnes, Hamnet’s mother, and I fell in love with her instantly. She is a strong woman, with a witchy side, who doesn’t care about society norms, and with a soft side for the ones she loves. This book was incredibly moving, we witness grief from the point of view of the whole family, and we empathize with all the characters (except for John, I hate him). It is also amazingly written, the writing is lyrical, poetic, moving and some passages were just genius (eg. how she described how Judith got the pestilence). I also loved that we got the pov of literally everyone, from Agnes to the fox that wanders in the street. The way she describes grief, death and love is incredible, I felt every word, every emotion.
I really recommend this book, but I recognize that it’s a little challenging so you have to be in the right mind set to read it and you also have to be ready to cry all your tears😭
Have you read Hamnet?
|| the pics from the movie were taken from Pinterest ||
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This book broke and healed my heart at the same time❤️🩹
Going into this I thought we would focus on Hamnet or Shakespeare, but our main character was Agnes, Hamnet’s mother, and I fell in love with her instantly. She is a strong woman, with a witchy side, who doesn’t care about society norms, and with a soft side for the ones she loves. This book was incredibly moving, we witness grief from the point of view of the whole family, and we empathize with all the characters (except for John, I hate him). It is also amazingly written, the writing is lyrical, poetic, moving and some passages were just genius (eg. how she described how Judith got the pestilence). I also loved that we got the pov of literally everyone, from Agnes to the fox that wanders in the street. The way she describes grief, death and love is incredible, I felt every word, every emotion.
I really recommend this book, but I recognize that it’s a little challenging so you have to be in the right mind set to read it and you also have to be ready to cry all your tears😭
Have you read Hamnet?
|| the pics from the movie were taken from Pinterest ||
#bookstagram #bookreview #booktok #bookrecommendations #literaryfiction #mystery #bookishcommunity #currentlyreading #readersofinstagram
Comments (8)
5 days agocozytalehaven
Non conoscevo questo romanzo, né l’ho mai letto🤔 ma da come ne parli sembra bellissimo, un viaggio unico che bisogna fare solo con consapevolezza e con il giusto umore, per riuscire a catturare ogni momento e ad assorbirne emozioni, personaggi e passaggi con la stessa poesia che si percepisce dalle pagine del libro - o almeno a me è questo che è arrivato leggendo questa tua bellissima recensione e sinceramente un po’ mi hai incuriosita🤎✨
6 days agomikaelastamataki
A book that breaks and heals your heart in the same breath has done its job. Solidarity on John, some characters exist purely to be hated.
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