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Burial Rites : The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick
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| Author:
Hannah Kent
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Picador
Author:
Hannah Kent
Language:
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Format:
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*Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction**BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick!* ‘Outstanding’ Madeline Miller ‘Gripping, intriguing and unique’ Kate Mosse Northern Iceland, 1829. A woman condemned to death for murdering her lover. A family forced to take her in. A priest tasked with absolving her. But all is not as it seems, and time is running out: winter is coming, and with it the execution date. Only she can know the truth. This is Agnes’s story. Based on actual events, Burial Rites by Hannah Kent is a dark thriller, and a beautiful and gripping read. ‘One of the best Scandinavian crime novels I’ve read’ Independent ‘Remarkable’ The Sunday Times ‘A must-read’ Grazia Shorlisted for The Guardian First Book Award Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards *Devotion, the new novel from Hannah Kent, is out now!*
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*Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction**BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick!* ‘Outstanding’ Madeline Miller ‘Gripping, intriguing and unique’ Kate Mosse Northern Iceland, 1829. A woman condemned to death for murdering her lover. A family forced to take her in. A priest tasked with absolving her. But all is not as it seems, and time is running out: winter is coming, and with it the execution date. Only she can know the truth. This is Agnes’s story. Based on actual events, Burial Rites by Hannah Kent is a dark thriller, and a beautiful and gripping read. ‘One of the best Scandinavian crime novels I’ve read’ Independent ‘Remarkable’ The Sunday Times ‘A must-read’ Grazia Shorlisted for The Guardian First Book Award Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards *Devotion, the new novel from Hannah Kent, is out now!*
About Author
Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. As a teenager she travelled to Iceland on a Rotary Exchange, where she first heard the story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir and was inspired to write Burial Rites. Hannah is the co-founder and deputy editor of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings, and is completing her PhD at Flinders University. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. Burial Rites is her first novel and has garnered praise from best-selling authors such as Karin Slaughter, Charlotte Rogan, Pulitzer prize-winner Geraldine Brooks and Orange prize-winner Madeline Miller.
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