Books for Breakfast: Hamnet

Each month we discuss a book which the group has chosen at the end of the previous year.

Author Maggie O'Farrell has long been fascinated with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, Hamlet.  The book Hamnet is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child.

In the 1580s,  Agnes (also known as Anne Hathaway) settles with her husband, WIlliam Shakespeare, in Stratford, and has three children including twins Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet.

The title for each meeting will be noted in this Calendar for each month. We place holds, trying to have the book for our NEXT MONTH's meeting available for our members to check out. If you are new to the group, you can place a hold yourself, or contact Julia S. to help you get a hold of the book for the upcoming meeting. 

At Books for Breakfast we try to have coffee and tea available, usually one of the members brings a snack or treat, based on a schedule we create at an earlier meeting. The food & coffee is incidental to the book discussion.