Happy Place · Fearne Cotton
Book Club Meets: Grief, women in history, and Elizabethan magic, with Maggie O’Farrell
February 5, 2026·30 min·2 clips
Maggie O'Farrell reveals historians have been calling Shakespeare's wife the wrong name for centuries.
As heard by us
A reflective book club chat that keeps grief, touch, and Agnes close to the surface.
Fern Cotton's January Happy Place Book Club pick treats Hamnet as a story about touch, absence, and grief. The focus stays on Agnes, whose need for contact gives the conversation its emotional center, and on the hands that shape her life.
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A grief-soaked book club chat for anyone who wants Hamnet pulled back to Agnes, family, and feeling.
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