Join The Bondi Literary Salon for our final Book Club get-together of 2020! In our gathering, we will be discussing Maggie O'Farrell's Women's Prize for Fiction winning novel, Hamnet.

WHEN: Thursday, 10th December, 2020, arrive in-store at 6:45 pm for our prompt 7:00 pm start.

TICKETS:  $20.00 (excluding external fees). We're back in-store, and can't wait to see you all in person! Your ticket includes a drink on arrival and nibbles on the evening.

Our twenty-sixth book club book is Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell now selling at Gertrude & Alice. You can find it for sale on our online store by clicking right here, or pop by during our opening hours!

WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

'Richly sensuous... something special' - The Sunday Times

'A thing of shimmering wonder' - David Mitchell

About Hamnet

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?

Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London.

Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week.

Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

About Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell is the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, and eight novels: AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award, and HAMNET. She lives in Edinburgh.