![]() ![]() Such knowledge of poisons and soporifics is useful when she wants to deceive everyone into thinking that she has killed herself. She is well educated, and, when she's older, she gets instruction from the Queen herself and also from Mechtild, a wise woman and herbalist. ![]() She attracts the attention of Queen Gertrude and becomes one of her ladies. Her mother is dead, and that loss is what makes her turn to women who can be substitutes for the one person who would have loved her unreservedly and completely. She begins with her early childhood, her life with her father, Polonius, and her brother, Laertes, in a dingy house outside the palace. Ophelia is the narrator, and Bloomsbury has provided an appealing cover that depicts her as a Kate Moss-ish beauty with a clear gaze and an expression both defiant and a little alarmed. ![]() Based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, it asks questions such as: what if Ophelia didn't die in the stream that slopes aslant a brook? What if she faked her own death and went, as advised by Hamlet, to a nunnery? This novel is what is sometimes called a "hypothetical". ![]()
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