Maggie O’Farrell: Giving New Life to Shakespeare’s Son on Saturday 15 August at 7pm BST, in which renowned author Maggie O'Farrell will discuss her brilliant new novel Hamnet. "In a short but scorchingly emotional book, O’Farrell brings us into the 16th century world of Shakespeare’s family living in Stratford. It is the time of the bubonic plague and with one of the family members falling into a fever, the novel charts the emotional journey of Shakespeare’s wife Agnes as trauma approaches. Surely Maggie O’Farrell’s most accomplished novel to date, Hamnet centres around the emotional life of a deeply intuitive woman, charting the terrain of her grief at the loss of a child." The event is free to watch online: https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/maggie-o-farrell-giving-new-life-to-shakespeare-s-son