NOW A MAJOR FILM BY CHLOE ZHAO STARRING JESSIE BUCKLEY AND PAUL MESCALTHE NO. 1 BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION\'Richly sensuous... something special\' The Sunday Times\'A thing of shimmering wonder\' David MitchellA LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.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 survive the week.Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.