British Book Award 2021 for Best NovelAgnes sees him and knows that this will be him. Yet the slight Latin teacher from Stratford-upon-Avon is not even eighteen. No matter, better she kiss him quickly. Better, she expects a child before someone can forbid her to marry. Fourteen years later, there are three children. But how are they to get along as long as her husband is doing who knows what with these plays? He is in London when eleven-year-old Hamnet feels the bumps on his twin sister Judith's neck. When Agnes recognizes the Black Death in her son's gaze.>Judith and Hamnet "Maggie O'Farrell succeeds masterfully in putting herself in Agnes' shoes." DEUTSCHLANDFUNK.