Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard

Click Here to Read: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard: The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley by Fiona Sturges on the Guardian website on December 25, 2025.

Jessie Buckley at the premiere of Hamnet at the Toronto International Film Festival. Image: Jay Dixit.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.