Hamnet

Yeah, because I think I've read more of her.

Yes, Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait.

Yes, that's right.

We both read The Marriage Portrait.

We did.

You read Hamnet.

I

loved

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What else have I read? I have a list.

I've read, the author of Hamnet wrote, I haven't read Hamnet, but I haven't read Hamnet.

I

haven't either, but I saw the movie.

Let me tell you about it.

She is, can I quickly, she's the author of Hamnet.

You've read Hamnet? I loved Hamnet.

And loved it.

I have not read it, but I've heard a lot of good things about it.

So let's hear about it.

Okay.

New York Times bestseller, the award-winning bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.

I will definitely pick that up.

And then for anyone who loved Hamnet, I read Year of Wonders, which is fiction.

It's Geraldine Brooks.

I guess you'd call it historical fiction.

But Hamnet,

wasn't that Hamnet written by Maggie O'Farrell? Yes.

But

this is just for someone who, if anyone liked Hamnet.

Stinking up your little-

I just finished Hamnet also.

Sorry, I'm-

Crazy

I don't think we need to be like handling them and moving them around as much.

Especially they're like, well, we...

And like there's this whole chapter and like obviously it's about trauma and grief, and I did cry at the end of Hamnet, fantastic book, but like there's this whole chapter where she's like talking about how like she doesn't wanna put her son in the ground because they demand that everyone with, um, who dies of the plague has to be buried right away.

And I'm like, "Girl, set that body on fire." Like, I'm sorry.

And I was really, really eager to get this one.

Just in case you're wondering which one I didn't love, it's Hamnet.

And I know that that's probably her most famous book.

But I just, I read it, the whole thing.