
Burial Rites
The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick
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Narrated by:
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Morven Christie
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Hannah Kent
BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick!
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who is charged with the brutal murder of her former master.
Inspired by a true story, Burial Rites is perfect for fans of Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
- The Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist
- The Guardian First Book Award Shortlist
- The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Shortlist
Iceland, 1829 – Agnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the murder of her lover.
Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district officer Jón Jónsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst, the family avoid contact with Agnes. Only Tóti, the young assistant priest appointed Agnes’s spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her. As the year progresses and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes’s story begins to emerge and with it the family’s terrible realization that all is not as they had assumed.
Based on actual events, Burial Rites is an astonishing and moving novel about the truths we claim to know and the ways in which we interpret what we’re told. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland’s formidable landscape, in which every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?
'Outstanding' – Madeline Miller
'Sublime' – Sunday Telegraph
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Excellent story - deep characters
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Heart breaking
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Brilliant, beautiful, haunting and heartbreaking!
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Very lyrical and compellingly adictive.
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Heartbreaking and beautiful
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Well researched, well written. Author has powerful command of metaphor.
Very Enjoyable
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the icelandic is nit accuard at times.
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Beautiful written, true literary craftsmanship
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The story, as told in the beautiful Icelandic prose and poetry.
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