Hamnet

with Maggie O’Farrell / Chaired by Anton Enus

STREAM IT FROM HOME OR ENJOY IT IN THE GARDEN

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning Hamnet gives us new and illuminating insight into Shakespeare and his masterpiece, and the family that nurtured him. Told from the perspective of Shakespeare’s wife, this devastatingly beautiful novel takes as its starting point the true fact of the death of their 11 year old son, Hamnet (a variant on the more familiar Hamlet), and from there weaves a deeply moving story of family, love and, most profoundly, of grief, and the paths we must navigate through them.

Please note that Maggie O'Farrell will join us in the Garden via live streaming from London, UK.

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Maggie O'Farrell is the award-winning author of the bestselling memoir I Am, I Am, I Am and eight novels including The Distance Between Us, The Hand That First Held Mine, Instructions for a Heatwave and This Must be the Place. Her most recent novel, Hamnet, won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Please note that Maggie O'Farrell will join us in the Garden via live streaming from London, UK.

Anton Enus, a broadcast journalist with more than 25 years' experience, has been presenting SBS World News bulletins since 1999. In his spare time he's run more than 40 marathons and also plays tennis and squash. His favourite authors are Vikram Seth, JM Coetzee and Sebastian Faulks.

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WHEN

Sun 28 Feb, 9:30am

WHERE

Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
East Stage

TICKETS

FREE
if you attend in the Garden
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
if you stream this session from home

The streamed event is presented in partnership with the Wheeler Centre.

DURATION

1hr

NOTE

To ensure your safety during the Age of Covid, 2021 will see some changes to the operation of the Writers’ Week’s site.

Adelaide Writers’ Week sessions held in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden are free however all patrons will be required to do a COVID-Safe Check-In by scanning one of the QR codes displayed around the Garden. If you do not have a smart phone, Writers’ Week staff can register you manually.

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Wheelchair accessible

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