This month's feature book was on many top lists for 2020, not to mention Maggie O'Farrell was at Adelaide Writers' Week this year discussing it. Jayne and Paula dig into this fictional account of the short life of Shakespeare's only son who died at age 11.
Books they mention:
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell
The Vanishing Act by Maggie O'Farrell
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg
And Now We Have Everything by Meghan O'Connell
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams
The Husband Poisoner by Tanya Bretherton
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
The Performance by Claire Thomas
My Daughter's Wedding by Gretel Killeen
Plays they mention:
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Movies they mention:
Romeo + Juliet
Links to articles they mention:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56035796
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/books/a35492569/romance-novels-power-importance-bridgerton/
Our book for next month is The Duke and I by Julia Quinn. Happy reading!