Hamnet

This book was an absolute masterpiece. The hype is real. O'Farrell's prose is so exact, fluid, and beautiful that I felt like I was buoyed along in the life of a 16th century family that could also be the life of any family today. Shakespeare, a near mythical being, is so desperately human here, his name never once being mentioned but hovering over everything. And the character of Agnes is so powerful and stunningly wrought that the two are equal pillars of this story. I don't know what else to say except read it!