Hannah Kent’s new memoir is a love letter to Iceland and an ‘enthralling’ murderer

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 Europe to celebrate the end of school. After discussing Burial Rites with him across the year,…

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