Devotion / Hannah Kent.

By: Kent, Hannah, 1985- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney, New South Wales : Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 418 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760556457Subject(s): Teenage girls -- Fiction | Lesbians -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | Ocean travel -- Fiction | Families -- Prussia (Kingdom) -- Fiction | Emigration and immigration -- South Australia -- Fiction | South Australia -- History -- 1836-1851 -- Fiction | Prussia (Kingdom) -- History -- 19th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Prussia, 1836. Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity… until she meets Thea. Ocean, 1838. The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at odds with their King's order for reform. Forced to flee religious persecution the families of Kay board a crowded, disease-riddled ship bound for the new colony of South Australia. In the face of brutal hardship, the beauty of whale song enters Hanne's heart, along with the miracle of her love for Thea. Theirs is a bond that nothing can break. The whale passed. The music faded. South Australia, 1838. A new start in an old land. God, society and nature itself decree Hanne and Thea cannot be together. But within the impossible… is devotion.
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Prussia, 1836. Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity… until she meets Thea. Ocean, 1838. The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at odds with their King's order for reform. Forced to flee religious persecution the families of Kay board a crowded, disease-riddled ship bound for the new colony of South Australia. In the face of brutal hardship, the beauty of whale song enters Hanne's heart, along with the miracle of her love for Thea. Theirs is a bond that nothing can break. The whale passed. The music faded. South Australia, 1838. A new start in an old land. God, society and nature itself decree Hanne and Thea cannot be together. But within the impossible… is devotion.

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