Devotion: Signed Exclusive Edition (Hardback)
by Hannah Kent· 2022
Following two young women who embark on a dangerous journey to Australia as their community flees religious persecution, Devotion is a story of freedom and consequence - and of love found and denied.
1836, Prussia. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on her. A child of nature, she yearns instead for the rush of the river, the wind dancing around her. Hanne finds little comfort in the local girls and friendship doesn't come easily, until she meets Thea and she finds in her a kindred spirit and finally, acceptance.
Hanne's family are Old Lutherans, and in her small village hushed worship is done secretly - this is a community under threat. But when they are granted safe passage to Australia, the community rejoices: at last a place they can pray without fear, a permanent home. Freedom.
It's a promise of freedom that will have devastating consequences for Hanne and Thea, but, on that long and brutal journey, their bond proves too strong for even nature to break...
Devotion is a story of girlhood and friendship, faith and suspicion, and the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love.
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Following two young women who embark on a dangerous journey to Australia as their community flees religious persecution, Devotion is a story of freedom and consequence - and of love found and denied. 1836, Prussia. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on her. A child of nature, she yearns instead for the rush of the river, the wind dancing around her. Hanne finds little comfort in the local girls and friendship doesn't come easily, until she meets Thea and she finds in her a kindred spirit and finally, acceptance. Hanne's family are Old Lutherans, and in her small village hushed worship is done secretly - this is a community under threat. But when they are granted safe passage to Australia, the community rejoices: at last a place they can pray without fear, a permanent home. Freedom. It's a promise of freedom that will have devastating consequences for Hanne and Thea, but, on that long and brutal journey, their bond proves too strong for even nature to break... Devotion is a story of girlhood and friendship, faith and suspicion, and the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love.