I've been dying to read Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, and I got it from my library. Hamnet is of course the name of the twin born to Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare. His twin was Judith . Turns out there is a novel about Judith written by William Black in 1884. Illustration to ‘Judith Shakespeare’ I read the novel. There are assumptions being made. Are they based in facts or made up to flesh it out? By a quarter of the novel I am hooked in. The chapters move back and forth in time. I want to read reviews and interviews, but I don't want to contaminate my first reading of the novel. Spoiler Alert! If you haven't read the novel, skip to links . I have read three quarters of the novel and my feeling is this: what Shakespeare's life was like is a projection of us. We know so little. O'Farrell has created a caring loving relationship with Anne Hathaway. Anne is called Agnes, and she is part wild, part witch, in tune with the natural cures, and even goes into the...