- Historical Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Women murderers
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and intimate.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Hannah Kent
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 337
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited, Pan Macmillan
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316243926
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Hannah Kent (born 1985) is an Australian writer, known for two novels – Burial Rites (2013) and The Good People (2016). Her third novel, Devotion, was published in 2021.
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