Hamnet

I came pretty close to disliking this one. O'Farrel obviously loves prose and dislikes dialog and she regularly falls into the prose pitfall of saying the same thing three times, thrice, in triplicate. And the more I noticed it the more it became annoying, disruptive, unhelpful. At the end of the day, however I loved the story and she is an accomplished author. This is not historical fiction a la Hillary Mantel. This is pure fiction based on a Historical curiosity, but it is a fine tale.