?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
?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
The bestselling Australian literary title of 2021, now in a beautiful new packaging matching Kent's other works.
Hannah Kent's first novel, the multi award winning international bestseller, Burial Rites, was translated into over 30 languages and is being adapted for film. Her second novel, The Good People was translated into 10 languages, nominated for numerous awards and is also being adapted for film. Devotion, her third novel, published in 2021, won Booktopia's Favourite Australian Book, and was shortlisted for multiple industry awards. Her original feature film, Run Rabbit Run, was directed by Daina Reid and starred Sarah Snook. Hannah is also the co-founder of Kill Your Darlings, and has written for The New York Times, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin, Qantas Magazine and LitHub. She lives and works on Peramangk and Kaurna country.
Piercingly beautiful . . . [Hanne and Thea's] story is an elegy,
freighted with loss and longing
*Guardian*
With an extraordinarily daring twist halfway through its narrative
Devotion is 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*
A modern classic, on par with heart wrenching love stories such as
Wuthering Heights and Pride And Prejudice. It tells the story of an
achingly beautiful love and a brutal search for freedom . . . A
moving tale with a breathtaking twist
*The Herald*
Devotion is rare and exquisite, both beautiful and muscular in its
portrayal of love found and denied. It’s a story of love as a
radical act . . . this is masterful storytelling with
pull-no-punches stakes. It’s taken root in my heart
*Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies*
Kent tells her heroine's burgeoning love story beautifully
*The Times*
Such a glorious love story. And the poetry of the landscape had,
for me, a Whitmanesque sensibility. A mighty impassioned cry to
love and the land
*Sarah Winman, author of Still Life*
Hannah Kent’s latest novel is stunning - full of magic and
adventure. I fell in love with language again reading it. So
beautiful and so raw. Devotion is impossibly good
*Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock*
Absolutely stunning. The writing, the characters and the twist were
just perfect. Any Hannah Kent novel is guaranteed to be powerful,
moving and so imaginative, but this was something else. It is a
story that will stay with me
*Elizabeth Macneal, Sunday Times bestselling author of
The Doll Factory and Circus of Wonders*
A poetic story of friendship, nature and what it means to step into
a new world - both physically and spiritually
*Cosmopolitan*
A superb novel. A fantastic merging of exquisite lyrical writing
and page-turning adventure. Devotion had me constantly surprised,
always entertained, and ultimately deeply moved: it deserves to be
a glittering success
*Emma Stonex, Sunday Times bestselling author of The
Lamplighters*
Kent combines lyrical writing with a strong sense of place in this
novel that takes us from a 19th-century Prussian village to the
dusty plains of Australia
*Good Housekeeping*
It is a love story, ardent and wholesome, and it drapes its reader
in lush historical detail. Fans will find a lot to savour
*Guardian Australia*
[A] marvellous queer love story
*InDaily*
Draped in rich historical detail, Hannah Kent's luminous and
poignant story explores kindred spirits and an epic search for
freedom
*Woman's Own*
Devotion, is nothing short of divine. Kent uses prose like a
magician might use a wand. I could say so much about the depth and
scope of this novel, its raw, powerful connection to nature and
human emotion, and it still wouldn’t do it justice. Simply put,
this is a beautiful book. A liturgy of love, full of grace and
wonder.
*Nydia Hetherington, author of A Girl Made of Air*
One of my favourite reads of the year . . . While there is great
sadness and hardship here, this surprising novel is ultimately
about beauty, nature and an epic love. I adored it
*ABC Arts*
A tale of the refiguring might of faithful hearts; of love that
sustains and love that ruins; of exile and dominion
*Sydney Morning Herald*
Exceptional . . . there are not many novelists writing today who
can conjure a European past as vividly as Hannah Kent . . . she is
a master at immersing the reader in a particular place and a
particular period, specialising in stories of women on the margins
trapped in close-knit communities and claustrophobic situations
*New European*
Devotion is utterly original. A glorious heartbreaking love story
of infinite beauty
*Heather Rose, author of The Museum of Modern Love*
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