Maggie O’Farrell was told not to expect much when she published “Hamnet.” The eighth novel by the Northern Irish writer dealt with the death of Hamnet Shakespeare, the young son of William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, and the subsequent writing of the classic tragedy “Hamlet.”
The book came out in March 2020, right on the verge of the Covid-19 shutdown. “I actually did have conversations with my agents where they said, ‘All the bookshops are shutting down, and unfortunately nothing’s going to really happen,’” O’Farrell said. “‘But, you know, there’s always the next book.’”
It turned out she didn’t have to wait for the next book.
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