Historical Fiction · Free kit
Hamnet
In 1590s Stratford-upon-Avon, a forest-raised healer named Agnes builds a life with a restless Latin tutor, their daughter Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith — while he chases a future on London's stages. In the summer of 1596, plague reaches an ordinary English door. Maggie O'Farrell's Women's Prize-winning novel is a sensory portrait of marriage, motherhood, and a boy whose short life would lend its name to a play. A 2025 film followed; this kit is for the book.
“Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicentre, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns.”
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Plan your meeting
Hamnet This or That
Answer in under three seconds. No wrong answers — only revealing ones.
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Rapid fire (60 seconds)
Read these aloud as fast as the group can shout answers.
- 1. Forest path at dawn or Fireside at dusk?
- 2. Herbal tea from the garden or Warm apple juice?
- 3. Honey oatcakes or Apples and cheese?
- 4. A bird on the glove or A bird disappearing into sky?
- 5. Empty house, listening or Crowded playhouse, listening?
- 6. Physic garden or Glove workshop?
- 7. A letter from another city or A person walking in the door?
- 8. Twins' private jokes or A speech written for hundreds?
- 9. Cooling a fever with cloths or Cooling a temper with silence?
- 10. Stay or Go?