Always Home, Always Homesick

Always Home, Always Homesick

by Hannah Kent
Publication Date: 29/04/2025

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'In my brief breath of life, might I find a way to fit light to paper?'


In a land of ethereal beauty, within a culture soaked in myth, a young woman discovers the story that will change her life.


In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrives at Keflavík Airport in the middle of the Icelandic winter.


That night she sleeps off her jet lag and bewilderment in the National Archives of Iceland, unaware that, years later, she will return to the same building to write Burial Rites, the haunting story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last woman executed in Iceland. The novel will go on to launch the author's stellar literary career and capture the hearts of readers across the globe.


Always Home, Always Homesick is Hannah Kent's exquisite love letter to a land that has forged a nation of storytellers, her ode to the transcendent power of creativity, and her invitation to us all to join her in the realms of mystery, spirit and wonder.


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ISBN:
9781761567896
9781761567896
Category:
Biography: literary
Publication Date:
29-04-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. As a teenager she travelled to Iceland on a Rotary Exchange, where she first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir.

Hannah is the co-founder and deputy editor of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings, and is completing her PhD at Flinders University. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. Burial Rites is her first novel.

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