https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/review-hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:32:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/review-hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell/#comment-147724 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:32:01 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=12842#comment-147724 I was also dissapointed by Hamnet. I think because I had just finished Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy and frankly, not many can compare to her mastery of historical fiction and the enormous merit she had to tackle such a complex person as Thomas Cromwell. I think what irked me about O’Farrell’s Hamnet was that it was about Shakespeare’s son, and that it seemed to thus appropriate (or at least lay claim to) an elevated literary status by association with the great bard. At worst, it seemed like a bit of fan fiction.

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