![]() ![]() ![]() What I thought I was reading was a serious novel about conflict in a society depending on cohesion at a time of enormous stress (emigration, re-settlement) and what happens when two young women, because of their very natures, 'kick against the pricks' (Acts 9:5). Hannah Kent made the observation that she needed to write a 'lighter' novel and I should have taken more note. I expected this novel to be much the same. ![]() The outcomes were chilling, but appropriate. Have you ever read a novel which you were expecting to pan out differently from what it does? Kent's first two novels were grippingly dark, set in societies claustrophobic, self-sufficient and very religious. My problem with 'Devotion' by Hannah Kent is probably my false expectation, little to do with my lack of sympathy for 'magic realism' though it's probably a factor. ![]()
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