Hamnet

HamnetNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time. Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeares life here is a novel so gorgeously written that it transports you." The Boston Globe England, 1580: The Black Death creeps

an African

where he's from

What would possibly go wrong

It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw

Emilie can’t get away from the enigmatic Nick

"An expansive

reconnects with an old flame through social media and embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming

But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light

they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm

the mother-in-law she has never met—and who doesn’t even know Elsie exists

the pair head for Maui

Jaded is a “raw