The Good People (Unabridged)
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3.7 • 27 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
The long awaited new book from award-winning Australian novelist Hannah Kent.
In 1825, in a remote valley in Ireland, three women are brought together by troubling events.
Nóra cares for her orphaned four-year-old grandson, who can neither walk nor speak. She hires a servant girl, Mary, to help her. Soon, Mary hears rumours in the valley about the dark powers of this strange little boy.
In desperation, Nóra and Mary turn to Nance Roche, a woman who locals say has the knowledge. That she consorts with the Good People, and only Nance can return those whom they have taken ...
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Australian author Hannah Kent’s bestselling 2013 novel Burial Rites was a ripper read; her follow-up is an otherworldly exploration of fairy folklore and superstition. Set in an isolated valley in 19th-century Ireland, The Good People tells the story of three women whose lives are forever changed by a boy who can neither speak nor walk. Kent’s descriptions of the landscape’s harsh beauty and her characters’ hardscrabble lives are stirring and cinematic. Suspenseful and character-driven, this is historical fiction that balances supernatural themes with thoughtful, grounded storytelling.
Customer Reviews
Unfathomably bad.
I hated this book with quite a passion. I still can’t understand why I saw it through to what passed for an ending. I’ve traveled down a dark river with Conrad, heard Chekhov’s string snapping in the distance, have seen Ibsen visit the sins of the father upon the son - dark and bleak is no barrier - but this book was goat excrement.