Hamlet is Not OK

Funny, shocking, & brilliant: from bestselling author R. A. Spratt, a whip-smart take on Shakespearean moral dilemmasSelby hates homework.She would rather watch TV - anything to escape the tedium of school, her parents' bookshop & small-town busybodies.So Selby didn't plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him.This novel transports Selby, & the reader, into the cold & crime-ridden play itself. Here she meets Hamlet: heavy with grief, the young prince is overthinking & over everything. Selby can relate. But unlike Hamlet, Selby isn't afraid of making decisions. In her world, Selby is used to feeling overlooked. But in the bloody, backstabbing world of Shakespeare, Selby's good conscience & quiet courage might just save some lives . . . hopefully before Hamlet stabs one of her classmates.°°°R.A. Spratt was born in the UK & lived in Dursley, Gloucestershire – a town immortalised by Harry Potter’s deeply unpleasant relatives – until she was two years old. Then, like many ambitious English people cursed with regional accents so strong no other British person can take them seriously, her family moved to Australia. The tedium of growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney was fertiliser to the growth of R.A.’s imagination. The only thing for a kid to do was get on a bicycle & go to the library, so R.A. Spratt did just that. Once there, she read everything, devouring the books of Arthur Ransome, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Robin Klein, & Judy Blume, & audiotapes of Shakespeare productions & Sherlock Holmes dramatisations. And so, her young mind was formed, & set on the path of becoming the extraordinary author she is today. Now based in Bowral NSW, she's the bestselling writer of dozens of absurd & witty books including Friday Barnes, The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, The Peski Kids & the Shockingly, & Astonishingly Good Stories collections. Podcast: Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt Selby hates homework. She would rather watch daytime television – anything to escape the tedium of school, her parents' bookshop and small-town busybodies. So Selby didn't plan to read Hamlet . She certainly never planned to meet him. This novel transports Selby, and the reader, into the cold and crime-ridden play itself. Here she meets Hamlet: heavy with grief, the young prince is overthinking and over everything. Selby can relate. But unlike Hamlet, Selby isn't afraid of making decisions. In her world, Selby is used to feeling overlooked. But in the bloody, backstabbing world of Shakespeare, Selby's good conscience and quiet courage might just save some lives . . . hopefully before Hamlet stabs one of her classmates.