Devotion - Hannah Kent - Mc Millan Libri - Poche - Roman

The powerful, moving and truly unique novel from the international bestselling author of Burial Rites and The Good People. ?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 pr