I enjoyed this, particularly the last quarter after the boy’s death, but struggled with the early chapters where there were (for me) too many unclearly differentiated characters from Shakespeare’s and Anne (Agnes?) large families.
The book was really mainly about Anne/Agnes, who didn’t come from a conventional 16th century Stratford family, but may have been the daughter of a witch; she was certainly a wild child of the woods. I don’t know how true this is.
Her husband William Shakespeare is never named in the book – the son of a roguish glove manufacturer, he goes off to London to further the family business and get away from his father, so the whole topic is addressed from some fairly oblique angles.
Readable, but quite hard work. Would I read another – not obviously.
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