This month's feature book was on many top lists for 2020, not to mention Maggie O'Farrell was at Adelaide Writers' Week this year discussing it. Jayne and Paula dig into this fictional account of the short life of Shakespeare's only son who died at age 11.

Books they mention:

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell

The Vanishing Act by Maggie O'Farrell

The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell

I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell

Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg

And Now We Have Everything by Meghan O'Connell

Atomic Habits by James Clear

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Phosphorescence by Julia Baird

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams

The Husband Poisoner by Tanya Bretherton

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

The Performance by Claire Thomas

My Daughter's Wedding by Gretel Killeen

Plays they mention:

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Movies they mention:

Romeo + Juliet

Links to articles they mention:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56035796

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/books/a35492569/romance-novels-power-importance-bridgerton/

Our book for next month is The Duke and I by Julia Quinn. Happy reading!