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2) Hamnet
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Tinder Press
Language
English
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You know before you start this book that Hamnet dies. Yet even so, it comes as a surprise. You are taken through events and the impact on family members in the most poignant of ways. And yes, I did cry. It’s not all about grief, though. It’s a cracking read.
For anyone who knows even a little about some of Shakespeare’s plays and characters, the author includes echoes as a nod to them. You might imagine this event or person is...
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Publisher
Tinder Press
Language
English
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Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway. He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with 20 years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will...
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Publisher
Tinder Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
London, July 1976. It hasn't rained for months, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each with different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share....