Mini Review: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
5*****
The hype is warranted. Though this is a slow moving book and not that much really happens, Maggie O'Farrell is able to show that the event of a child dying is the defining event of any parent's life, something that changes you irreversibly and forever, even if the outside world simply moves on. She illustrates this in such a quiet, yet gut wrenching way, I wanted to reach through the pages and squeeze his mother's hand. The language is a real treat in this book, in its elegance that borders on the poetic. Yet another literary triumph for this author and well-deserved at that. It's only January, yet come December, I have no doubt this will have been one of the best books I read this year.
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