HAMNETWinner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, Waterstones Book of the Year 2020, a Sunday Times bestseller! On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford upon Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not