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, directed by Daina Reid and starring Sarah Snook, is in production. 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.
"The Good People breathes life into the mythologies of Irish
folklore. It unfolds the story of two women desperate to reclaim
what little power they can over lives touched with hopelessness and
despair in a changing time."--Shelf Awarness
"Add Kent to the list of terrific Australian novelists writing
today. While Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies) mines modern marriage
and mores for her page-turning mysteries, Kent (Burial Rites) goes
back in time to find reality-based stories of women who pay the
price for challenging society's expectations. The Good People has
great characters, a setting that seeps into your bones and the
always compelling tug between the spiritual and the
superstitious."--USA Today (starred review)
"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
"An intricate, heartbreaking portrayal of three women and the
conflict between religious belief and folklore."--Stylist
"If Stevie Wonder is correct, when you believe in things you don't
understand, then you suffer. Kent's novel validates his indictment
of superstition."--Kirkus
"Kent brings her talent for writing dark and atmospheric historical
fiction to this tale set in rural Ireland in 1825... Kent's
immersive setting, benefiting from impressive historical research
and the use of Gaelic vocabulary, features both a dramatically
alive natural world and a believably fearsome supernatural one.
Inspired by true events and exploring those places where reason,
religion, and superstition cross paths, this will please lovers of
haunting literary fiction. "--Booklist
"Kent has a terrific feel for the language of her setting..This is
a serious and compelling novel about those in desperate
circumstances cling to ritual as a bulwark against their own
powerlessness."--The Guardian
"Kent has a wonderful talent for taking fragments of historical
facts and breathing life into them through her fiction. She has
matched her debut with another disturbing and haunting
novel."--Sunday Herald
"Kent skillfully depicts a world where anything outside the norm
falls under suspicion, particularly women who are not under the
protection of a man."--Library Journal
"Kent's suspenseful storytelling plunges readers into early
19th-century Ireland. She brings vivid life to the hardscrabble
scenes...Although 'The Good People' is fiction, it faithfully
represents the hold of ancient Celtic myths on generations of
Irish."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Lyrical and unsettling, THE GOOD PEOPLE is a vivid account of the
contradictions of life in rural Ireland in the 19th century. A
literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller, Hannah Kent
takes us on a frightening journey towards an unspeakable tragedy. I
am in awe of Kent's gifts as a storyteller."--Paula Hawkins, author
of The Girl on the Train "THE GOOD PEOPLE is, like Burial Rites, a
thoroughly engrossing entr�e into the macabre nature of a vanished
society, its virtues and its follies and its lethal impulses. THE
GOOD PEOPLE takes us straight to a place utterly unexpected and
believable, where amidst the earnest mayhem people impose on each
other, there is no patronizing quaintness, but a compelling sense
of the inevitability of solemn horrors."--Thomas Keneally, author
of Schindler's Ark and The Daughters of Mars "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
"Ms. Kent has a knack for conjuring the unsettled spirit world
through deft stylistic flourishes...THE GOOD PEOPLE is far from a
high-handed condemnation of superstitious belief. It makes the
terrors of the past feel palpable and imminent. It makes you reach
for whatever good luck charms you carry with you."--Sam Sacks, The
Wall Street Journal
"Rural pre-famine Ireland in all its beauty and desolation is alive
on every page of this exquisite novel...'The Good People' is a
dramatic tale of desperation, set in a bleak time and place when no
amount of protective ritual and belief - or goodness - can rescue
people from their circumstances."--Katherine Weber, The New York
Times Book Review
"Taking its inspiration from newspaper reports of a real court case
in County Kerry in 1826, THE GOOD PEOPLE is an even better novel
than Burial Rites-a starkly realized tale of love, grief and
misconceived beliefs."--The Sunday Times UK
"The novel is thrillingly alive to the dynamic of poor, close-knit
communities, where fear of the outsider trumps reason and
compassion."--Metro
Faith, folk-knowledge, and fear coalesce in remote 19th-century
Ireland in this second novel from Kent...Though rife with
description, backstory, and a surfeit of gossip, the book's
pervasive sense of foreboding and clear narrative arcs keep the
tale immersive. Kent leads the reader on a rocky, disquieting
journey to the misty crossroads of Irish folk beliefs past and
future.--Publisher's Weekly
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