IN CONVERSATION
4-5pm Saturday 5 June
Muse, East Hotel, Kingston Canberra ACT
Hannah Kent Devotion
Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity . . . until she meets Thea.
Hanne's family are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at odds with their King's order for reform. Forced to flee religious persecution, the families of the village board a crowded, disease-riddled ship bound for the new colony of South Australia.
“Devotion is utterly original. A glorious, heartbreaking love story of infinite beauty.”
— Heather Rose
In the face of brutal hardship, beauty enters Hanne's heart, along with the miracle of her love for Thea. Amid their new start in an old land, God, society and nature decree that Hanne and Thea cannot be together. But within the impossible . . . is devotion. Theirs is a bond that nothing can break.
Short-listed for Indie Book Awards Fiction 2022
Tickets: $40 (includes a copy of Devotion RRP $32.99)
Hannah Kent's first novel, the international bestseller, Burial Rites (2013), was translated into over 30 languages and won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, the ABA Nielsen Bookdata Bookseller's Choice Award, the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award and the FAW Christina Stead Award. It is currently being adapted for film by Sony TriStar. Hannah's second novel, The Good People (2016), was also translated into many languages and is currently being adapted for film by Aquarius Productions.
Beejay Silcox is an Australian writer and critic whose literary criticism and cultural commentary regularly appears in national and international arts publications. She's also a character in Krissy's latest book.
Venue
Muse, East Hotel
69 Canberra Ave, Kingston ACT
T: (02) 6178 0024