Hamnet Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers a child is visited by

a child is visited by his first chance and unsure what to do with it

ruled by a powerful showman who’s been waiting for Kallia to finally cross his stage

“unvarnished” (The New York Times)

Claire finds herself becoming more and more secluded as she starts to obsess over the diary's contents… as well as the lingering feeling that her own sister's disappearance may be somehow tied to it all

Hamnet Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers a child is visited byNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time. Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeares life here is a novel so gorgeously written that it transports you." The Boston Globe England, 1580: The Black Death creeps