
'Hamnet' novelist Maggie O'Farrell maps her Irish roots in 'Land'
Från Fresh Air
Publicerad 2026-06-02
O’Farrell’s 2020 novel ‘Hamnet’ was adapted into an award-winning film last year. She co-wrote the screenplay. It’s about the grief Shakespeare and his wife Agnes struggle with after their son, Hamnet, dies of the plague, and how that grief leads him to write the play Hamlet. O’Farrell’s new novel,…