The Book This is the fictionalised true story of Agnes Magnusdottir, the last woman to be executed in Iceland on 12 January 1830.
Agnes is a servant on a remote farmstead in northern Iceland. She is condemned to death for murdering her employer and lover, Natan.
As time moves slowly through the depths of a bitter Icelandic winter into spring and as her death gets ever closer, the tragedy of Agnes life becomes ever clearer to the family where she is to spend her last days and to the priest who is to minister for her soul and we the readers, come to have an insight into the haunting land of Iceland and into the life of Agnes.
The Author
Hannah Kent is a young Australian author and 'Burial Rites' is her first novel. She studied creative writing at Flinders University and as part of her studies, decided to explore the story of Agnes Magnusdottir, having been on an exchange visit to Iceland over 10 years previously and hearing her story for the first time. Kent is also the co-founder and deputy editor of an Australian literary journal 'Kill Your Darlings'. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award.
More Information
If interested, you read the latest news about Hannah Kent on her blog at: http://hannahkentauthor.com/
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