Downtown Huntsville Library
FABclub
Friday, August 28, 2026 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
FABclub meets once a month to discuss books by female authors. We read a variety of genres. Everyone is welcome to join!
This month we are discussing Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell.
Hamnet is a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It is a fictional account of William Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age eleven in 1596, focusing on his parents' grief. In 2020, the book won the Women's Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; that December, it was also chosen as Waterstones' Book Of The Year. The following year, it was named "Novel of the Year" at the Dalkey Literary Awards, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
FABclub meets on the fourth Friday of the month in Meeting Room A at 11:30am.
Questions? Contact asprogramming@hmcpl.org.