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.
Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. Her first novel, Burial Rites, has been translated into nearly thirty languages and was shortlisted for the Baileys 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, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award, amongst others. Hannah is also the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. The Good People is her second novel.
Exceptional . . . The Good People is an even better novel than
Burial Rites — a starkly realised tale of love, grief and
misconceived beliefs
*Sunday Times*
Lyrical and unsettling . . . A literary novel with the pace and
tension of a thriller . . . I am in awe of Kent's gifts as a
storyteller.
*Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the
Train*
An imaginative tour-de-force that recreates a way of perceiving the
world with extraordinary vividness . . . With its exquisite prose,
this harrowing, haunting narrative of love and suffering is sure to
be a prize-winner
*Daily Mail*
Kent has a terrific feel for the language of her setting. The prose
is richly textured with evocative vocabulary . . . A serious and
compelling novel about how those in desperate circumstances cling
to ritual as a bulwark against their own powerlessness
*Guardian*
Hannah Kent's second novel is a thorough study of the faiths and
rituals of a rural community, as well as a poignant portrayal of
grief
*Financial Times*
The Good People lies somewhere between Andrew Michael Hurley's
gothic The Loney and Emma Donoghue's The Wonder . . . an absorbing
and imaginative novel about superstition and the old ways
*The Times*
A thoroughly engrossing entrée into the macabre nature of a
vanished society, its virtues and its follies and its lethal
impulses . . . utterly unexpected
*Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-author of Schindler's
Ark*
Beautiful . . . the setting and the characters drew me in
immediately and kept me completely absorbed
*Claire King, author of The Night Rainbow*
An immersive, startlingly lyrical portrait of a time when the
borders between logic and superstition were dangerously porous . .
. thrillingly alive
*Metro*
Remarkable . . . Kent displays an uncanny ability to immerse
herself in an unfamiliar landscape and to give that landscape a
life - a voice - that is utterly convincing . . . a haunting novel,
shrewdly conceived and beautifully written
*The Australian*
A sensitively drawn tale of love, grief, and terrible loss
*The Age*
The Good People is a sensitively drawn tale of love, grief, and
terrible loss, set in a tiny Irish village in the early 19th
century . . . filled with descriptions of ritual and rhythm
*Canberra Times*
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