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Burial Rites

Hannah Kent
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781035038626
  • Weight: 266g
  • Dimensions: 196 x 129mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
A BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

Based on actual events, Burial Rites by Hannah Kent is a haunting work of historical fiction, following the final days of a young woman accused of murder in 19th-century Iceland.

'Outstanding' – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
'Gripping, intriguing and unique' – Kate Mosse, author of The Burning Chambers

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 . . .

'One of the best Scandinavian crime novels I've read' – Independent
'Remarkable' – Sunday Times
'A must-read' – Grazia

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

** Read Hannah Kent's memoir about Iceland, Always Home, Always Homesick **
About Hannah Kent
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, her third novel, was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

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