Maggie O'Farrell, HAMNET

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

"It doesn't take a psychiatrist to see what Shakespeare has done there: he's allowed his son to live." Novelist Maggie O'Farrell has been fascinated by Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, since she was in high school and decided it was time for the rest of the world to learn of his story. Maggie tells Zibby about the years of research that went into weaving a fictionalized account of how the Shakespeares handled the grief of losing a child, and encourages listeners to reread Hamlet with fresh eyes.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.
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0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.8	Welcome to another day of my June book blast. This is Historical Fiction Sunday. Listen to these amazing episodes of authors who have
0:47.7	taken history and imagined what if it had happened this way or with these characters. Please
0:52.6	enjoy. Maggie O'Farrell is the author of
0:54.8	Hamnet. Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, Maggie O'Farrell grew up in Wales and Scotland,
1:01.0	and now lives in Edinburgh. Her most recent novel, Hamnet, won the 2021 National Book Critics
1:06.2	Circle Award for Fiction and was named one of the New York Times 10 best books of the year. She's also the author
1:11.9	of The Hand That First Held Mine, which was the winner of the Costa novel award, instructions for
1:18.5	a heat wave, this must be the place, and I Am, I Am, I Am, 17 brushes with death. Welcome, Maggie,
1:26.4	thank you so much for coming on moms.
1:28.6	Don't have time to read books to discuss Hamnet, a novel of the plague.
1:32.9	Thank you so much for having me, Zibbe.
1:34.4	It's a pleasure to be here.
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