Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell“He has, Agnes sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child’s Suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child’s stead so that the boy might live.”   ― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet Hamnet is a historical fiction novel about the life of William Shakespeare’s family at the time of his son Hamnet’s death in 1596 and the writing of