Turning Pages: A Contemporary Book Club

Explore classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction from around the world. This Williamsburg Regional Library book group will sample critically acclaimed and prize-winning titles with open and inclusive discussion.

Join us in person or virtually as we discuss Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. (Please find online meeting details in the event listing at wrl.org/events)

Agnes, a willful young woman, marries her brothers’ Latin tutor, and moves to Stratford-on-Avon to live with her new family. When her husband runs to London to begin a stage career, she must defend her children from her bullying father-in-law. Strong as she is, even she is tested when their youngest son dies of bubonic plague.