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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * Now a major motion picture starring ACADEMY AWARD® winner Jessie Buckley Paul Mescal Emily Watson and Joe Alwyn directed by Chloé Zhao. The acclaimed author of the Reese s Book Club pick The Marriage Portrait delivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare s eleven-year-old son Hamnet and the years leading up to the production of his great play Hamlet. Miraculous.. Brilliant.. A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer--or curse.. A richly drawn and intimate portrait of 16th-century English life set against the arrival of one devastating death. --Ron Charles The Washington Post England 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land an ever-present threat infecting the healthy the sick the old and the young alike. The end of days is near but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor--penniless and bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary eccentric young woman. Agnes is a w