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Hannah Kent’s new memoir is a love letter to Iceland and an ‘enthralling’ murderer
Hannah Kent is the reason I went to Iceland. Her award-winning first novel Burial Rites (2013) is a speculative biography of the murderer Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last woman to be executed in Iceland. The novel is often set for VCE English in Victoria and I picked it up because my…
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Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent review – absorbing memoir brings Iceland to life
The Burial Rites author traces her abiding love affair with the country that inspired both her award-winning debut and her brilliant literary career
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