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Pleasant reading but thin gruel.
This is a easy to read novel that moves along and is full of engaging detail. However. It is little more than a family melodrama made to seem significant by invoking Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway. It has every cliche and the characters are unidirectional . One would certainly not come away with an enriched sense of Hamlet. The best part was acset piece on how the plague arrived in England. Even then, one might believe none but the character in the novel had died if the plague in Stratford. I dont recommend this book unless you are at the beach.
