Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell EPUB & PDF – Details About
- Author: Maggie O’Farrell
- Genre: Biographical Fiction, Biographical Historical Fiction
- Publish Date: 21 July 2020
- Size: 1.3 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
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- Price: Free
A boy is coming down a flight of stairs.
The passage is narrow and twists back on itself. He takes each step
slowly, sliding himself along the wall, his boots meeting each tread
with a thud.
Near the bottom, he pauses for a moment, looking back the way he has
come. Then, suddenly resolute, he leaps the final three stairs, as is his habit.
He stumbles as he lands, falling to his knees on the flagstone floor.
It is a close, windless day in late summer, and the downstairs room is
slashed by long strips of light. The sun glowers at him from outside, the
windows latticed slabs of yellow, set into the plaster
He gets up, rubbing his legs. He looks one way, up the stairs; he looks the
other, unable to decide which way he should turn.
The room is empty, the fire ruminating in its grate, orange embers below
soft, spiralling smoke. His injured kneecaps throb in time with his heartbeat.
He stands with one hand resting on the latch of the door to the stairs, the
scuffed leather tip of his boot raised, poised for motion, for flight. His hair,
light-coloured, almost gold, rises up from his brow in tufts.
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