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Gunn Memorial Library Friday Book Club - Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrel

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Check out this event: "Gunn Memorial Library Friday Book Club - Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrel" at Gunn Memorial Library coming up on Jan 10, 2025!

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Gunn Memorial Library Friday Book Club - Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrel
The January and February picks for the Gunn Memorial Library book clubs will come from the New York Times Top 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. In January, we will read Maggie O’Farrell’s...
America/New_York
Jan 10, 2025 1:00 PM
Jan 10, 2025 2:00 PM
5 Wykeham Road
Washington
CT
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The January and February picks for the Gunn Memorial Library book clubs will come from the New York Times Top 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. In January, we will read Maggie O’Farrell’s beautifully written page-turner, Hamnet.

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old, and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.

A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.

Please register at: https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/gml-friday-book-club-hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell/

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Friday
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Jan 10, 2025
1:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Gunn Memorial Library
5 Wykeham Road
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Washington
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