The Good People
09 February 2017Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Exquisite' – Daily Mail
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize
Based on true events, The Good People is Hannah Kent's engrossing novel about superstition and devoted love.
Ireland, 1825.
Nóra, bereft after the sudden death of her husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheál, who cannot speak or walk. What happened to the healthy, happy grandson she met when...
Details
09 February 2017256 pages
9781447233374Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Exceptional . . . The Good People is an even better novel than Burial Rites — a starkly realised tale of love, grief and misconceived beliefsSunday Times
Lyrical and unsettling . . . A literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller . . . I am in awe of Kent's gifts as a storyteller.Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train
An imaginative tour-de-force that recreates a way of perceiving the world with extraordinary vividness . . . With its exquisite prose, this harrowing, haunting narrative of love and suffering is sure to be a prize-winnerDaily Mail
Kent has a terrific feel for the language of her setting. The prose is richly textured with evocative vocabulary . . . A serious and compelling novel about how those in desperate circumstances cling to ritual as a bulwark against their own powerlessnessGraeme Macrae Burnet, Guardian
