The powerful, moving and truly unique novel from the international bestselling author of
Burial Rites and
The Good People.
'A glorious love story' - Sarah Winman, author of Still Life
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
A stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a breathtaking twist, from the bestselling author of Burial Rites, Hannah Kent.
Hanne and Thea's friendship is a miracle. Before, Hanne always felt apart from the local girls, but with Thea it all came easy. Suddenly she could imagine a future for herself, a happy one, by Thea's side.
But when their tight-knit community embarks on a long and brutal journey to Australia, in search of new freedoms on old land, Hanne and Thea's bond must find a way to survive the most impossible devastation.
Will their love prove too strong for even Nature to break?
'Extraordinarily daring . . . a remarkable novel, an almost visionary celebration of the death-defying power of the women's love' - Sunday Times, Historical Fiction Book of the Month
'Exquisite . . . it's taken root in my heart' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
'So beautiful and so raw . . . Devotion is impossibly good' - Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock
Piercingly beautiful . . . [Hanne and Thea's] story is an elegy, freighted with loss and longing Guardian
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 In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuillegalscript Award. She is the author of
Burial Rites,
The Good People and
Devotion.
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Hannah Kent's first novel, Burial Rites, has been translated into over thirty languages and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), the Guardian First Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In Australia it won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, amongst others. Her second novel, The Good People, was also translated into many languages and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. Devotion is her third novel.
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?With an extraordinarily daring twist halfway through, Devotion is a remarkable novel, an almost visionary celebration of the death-defying power of the women's love' - The Sunday Times
?Exquisite . . . it's taken root in my heart' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
1836, Prussia. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on her. A child of nature, she yearns instead for the rush of the river, the wind dancing around her. Hanne finds little comfort in the local girls and friendship doesn't come easily, until she meets Thea and she finds in her a kindred spirit and finally, acceptance.
Hanne's family are Old Lutherans, and in her small village hushed worship is done secretly - this is a community under threat. But when they are granted safe passage to Australia, the community rejoices: at last a place they can pray without fear, a permanent home. Freedom.
It's a promise of freedom that will have devastating consequences for Hanne and Thea, but, on that long and brutal journey, their bond proves too strong for even nature to break . . .
From the bestselling author of Burial Rites and The Good People, Devotion is a stunning story of girlhood and friendship, faith and suspicion, and the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love.
?A glorious love story' - Sarah Winman, author of Still Life
?So beautiful and so raw . . . Impossibly good' - Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock
