Best Adapted Book Club Reads "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell
Schedule
Mon Dec 08 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Bookstore1Sarasota | Sarasota, FL
About this Event
The Best Adapted Book Club focuses on books on their way to becoming award-season films. December's pick is the national bestseller Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. Set in England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. The film is directed by Chloé Zhao and stars Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, and Jessie Buckley. It is scheduled to be released in the United States nationwide on December 12, 2025.
We will meet in person in the loft at our store at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. The book club is $18, which is the cost of your copy of Hamnet to be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You’d Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
Roxanne Baker hails from the mecca of film, Rochester, NY, where she introduced films at the George Eastman House. Since her arrival in Florida, she has moderated film talk backs at Burns Court and taught Film Appreciation atSarasota Art Museum through Osher Life Long Learning.
Where is it happening?
Bookstore1Sarasota, 117 S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 19.26
