Bookshelfie: Maggie O’Farrell
Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast
What better way to discover new books than through recommendations from the shelves of inspiring women?
In this episode 2020 Women’s Prize winner Maggie O’Farrell joins Vick Hope and reveals what it was like to win the prize over a zoom call and what level of research is really required to write a masterpiece like Hamnet – a moving exploration of death and grief in Elizabethan England told through the story of William Shakespeare’s real life son Hamnet.
Listen to the podcast here