Books like Hamnet
Shakespeare's wife raises their twins in plague-era Stratford, and when their son dies, she channels her grief into the creation of a play her husband will write.
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Broken Country
In Dorset in 1968, Beth Johnson, still grieving the son she and her husband, Frank, lost two years before, meets again her first love, Gabriel, now a famous novelist, who has come back to his family's estate nearby with his young son.
The Light Between Oceans
On Janus Rock, a lighthouse island off Western Australia in 1926, keeper Tom Sherbourne and his wife Isabel, grieving after miscarriages, find a boat washed ashore with a dead man and a crying baby, and Isabel persuades Tom to keep the child as their own.
The Deep End of the Ocean
Beth Cappadora takes her three children to her high school reunion in a Chicago hotel, turns her back for a moment in the crowded lobby, and her three-year-old son, Ben, is gone.
Three Junes
Three Junes in the lives of the McLeods, a Scottish family: the widowed father on a tour of Greece, his gay son Fenno, a bookseller in New York, and a young artist they both come to know.
Aliss at the Fire
In 2002, Signe lies on a bench in an old house by a fjord, remembering the November day in 1979 when her husband Asle rowed out onto the water and did not come back.
A God in Ruins
The companion to Life After Life follows a bomber pilot through World War II, exploring the heroism and trauma of the men who flew and the families who waited.
Charming Billy
In a Bronx bar after the funeral of Billy Lynch, an Irish-American alcoholic, his family and friends trade stories about his life and the lost love that shaped it.
Everything I Never Told You
Lydia is dead. So begins the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family in 1970s small-town Ohio, whose favourite daughter is found in the local lake, and whose parents, brother and younger sister were never as close as they seemed.
Longbourn
Pride and Prejudice from below stairs: Sarah, an orphaned housemaid who scrubs the Bennets' petticoats at Longbourn, grows curious about James Smith, the quiet new footman who arrives with no references and a past he will not discuss.
Everything Inside
Eight stories of Haitians in Miami, in Port-au-Prince and on an unnamed island, among them a woman visiting a dying friend, a man on the edge of a roof and a love triangle that reaches across the sea.
Atonement
A thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie that destroys two lives, then spends decades trying to atone through the only tool she has: writing.
The Great Believers
In 1980s Chicago, art gallery director Yale Tishman watches the AIDS epidemic take his friends, and in 2015 Fiona, the sister of one of them, searches Paris for her estranged daughter.