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Burial Rites

Burial Rites( )
Author: Kent, Hannah
Read by: Christie, Morven
ISBN:978-1-74317-933-8
Publication Date:Jun 2014
Publisher:Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited
Imprint:Bolinda Audio
Book Format:Pre-recorded MP3 player
List Price:AUD $153.95
Book Description:

In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men.Agnes is sent to wait out the months leading up to her execution on the farm of district officer Jón Jónsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderess in their midst, the family avoid contact with Agnes - until one winter night, she begins her whispered confession to them, and they realise that all is not as they had assumed.Based on a true...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0 x 23 cm
Book Weight:0.2 Kilograms
Author Biography
Kent, Hannah (Author)
Hannah Kent was born in 1985 in Adelaide, Australia. She is the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. She won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award (2011). Burial Rites is her first novel. It won numerous awards including 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. Her second novel, The Good People, is being adapted into a film. She will be writing the screenplay.

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