Hannah Kent’s new memoir is a love letter to Iceland and an ‘enthralling’ murderer
- Written by Sharon Bickle, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
Hannah Kent is the reason I went to Iceland. Her award-winning first novel Burial Rites (2013) is a speculative biography of the murderer Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last woman to be executed in Iceland. The novel is often set for VCE English in Victoria and I picked it up because my son was studying it. We had already planned a trip to...
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