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Thank you. slash the book club. Hamlet, one of the actors said. She heard it again, as clear and resonant as the

strike of a distant bell. There it is again, Hamlet. Anyes bites her

lip until she tastes the tang of her own blood. She grips her hands together. They are saying it,

these men up there on the stage, passing it between them like a counter and a game. Hamlet,

Hamlet, Hamlet. Anas cannot understand this. Why would her husband have done it?

Why pretend that it means nothing to him? Just a collection of letters? How could he thieve this name,

then strip and flents it of all it embodies, discarding the very life it once contained. How could he take up his pen

and write it on a page, breaking its connection with their son? So that was from Maggi O'Farrell's

historical novel Hamnet, which is obviously now a major movie starring Paul Mescal and Jesse Buckley and we will touch on

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