Stunning. The writing is exquisite, immersive and compelling... deserves to win prizes
- Marian Keyes
The story of Hamnet Shakespeare has been waiting in the shadows for over four hundred years. Maggie O'Farrell brings it dazzlingly, devastatingly, into the light
- Kamila Shamsie
Grief and loss so finely written I could hardly bear to read it
- Sarah Moss
Heartstopping. Hamnetdoes for the Shakespeare story what Jean Rhys did for Jane Eyre, inhabiting, enlarging and enriching it in ways that will alter the reader's view for ever
- Patrick Gale