The Good People
(Sprache: Englisch)
From Hannah Kent, the bestselling author of Burial Rites, comes The Good People, set in nineteenth-century Ireland and based on newspaper reports and a court case from the time.
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From Hannah Kent, the bestselling author of Burial Rites, comes The Good People, set in nineteenth-century Ireland and based on newspaper reports and a court case from the time.
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**Devotion, the new novel from Hannah Kent, is out now!**'Exquisite' - Daily Mail
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize
One woman's mercy is another's murder . . .
Ireland, 1825. Nóra, bereft after the sudden death of her husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheál. Micheál cannot speak or walk and Nóra is desperate to know what is wrong with him. What happened to the healthy, happy grandson she met when her daughter was still alive?
Mary arrives in the valley to help Nóra just as the whispers are spreading: stories of unexplained misfortunes, of illnesses, and rumours that Micheál is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley. Nance has lived in the valley all of her life. She is a healer who knows how to use the plants and berries of the woodland; she understands the magic in the old ways. And she might be able to help Micheál . . .
As these three women are drawn together in the hope of restoring Micheál, their world of folklore and belief, of ritual and stories, tightens around them. It will lead them down a dangerous path, and force them to question everything they have ever known.
'A starkly realised tale of love, grief and misconceived beliefs' - Sunday Times
'An imaginative tour de force . . . exquisite' - Daily Mail
Autoren-Porträt von Hannah Kent
Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. She is the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. She is the author of Burial Rites, The Good People and Devotion.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Hannah Kent
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2017, 400 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1447233360
- ISBN-13: 9781447233367
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.08.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Exceptional . . . The Good People is an even better novel than Burial Rites - a starkly realised tale of love, grief and misconceived beliefs Sunday Times
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