AWW22 Devotion - Hannah Kent

Chaired by Anton Enus


After the runaway success of her first two novels, Adelaide’s own
Hannah Kent returns with Devotion, a story of the 19th Century
Lutherans who migrated from Prussia to South Australia via a
dangerous sea voyage. There are many types of love empathetically
drawn – mothers and daughters, sibling and friends – but at the
heart of the novel is the love story between narrator Hanne and
her friend Thea. Hanne can hear nature’s music, and in this lush
lyrical book, it becomes the poignant score to her great,
majestic love.