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Open Book: Maggie O'Farrell, Sophie Hannah and Reading in Isolation

29/03/2020

Maggie O'Farrell, Sophie Hannah and Reading in Isolation

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Maggie O'Farrell, Sophie Hannah and Reading in Isolation

Mariella Frostrup talks to Maggie O'Farrell about her new novel, Hamnet.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Maggie O'Farrell about Hamnet, her new novel exploring William Shakespeare's family in a time of pestilence.

Mariella talks to Maggie O'Farrell about Hamnet, her new novel exploring William Shakespeare's family in a time of pestilence. She explains why she wanted to write about the death of his son and how it may have inspired the Bard's most famous teenager.

This month's Book I'd Never Lend is chosen by crime writer Sophie Hannah

Plus the best books for "shelf-isolation" are discussed with Literary Friction's Octavia Bright and Ted Hodgkinson,  Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre and chair of this year's soon to be announced International Booker Prize.

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