
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


I re-read Hamnet because of the MOVIE adaptation, but was SHOOK by how deftly O'Farrell surmounts the MANY pitfalls of historical fiction.
We dive deep into: why her vision of the era is so vivid; how Shakespeare is everywhere but also nowhere; how this is a feminist novel; and all the ways the prose transports, affects and inspires the reader. Seriously, treat yourself now.
By Kimberly Ford4.7
100100 ratings
I re-read Hamnet because of the MOVIE adaptation, but was SHOOK by how deftly O'Farrell surmounts the MANY pitfalls of historical fiction.
We dive deep into: why her vision of the era is so vivid; how Shakespeare is everywhere but also nowhere; how this is a feminist novel; and all the ways the prose transports, affects and inspires the reader. Seriously, treat yourself now.

38,474 Listeners

6,814 Listeners

29,058 Listeners

3,972 Listeners

4,048 Listeners

1,414 Listeners

397 Listeners

15,859 Listeners

308 Listeners

658 Listeners

1,585 Listeners

3,525 Listeners

11,420 Listeners

661 Listeners

981 Listeners