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The Secret Life of Writers by TabloHannah Kent on the freedom and delight in writing Devotion, not being shackled to history and her writing lifeAustralian novelist Hannah Kent’s first novel Burial Rites, about the last woman executed in Iceland, was a bestseller internationally and translated into 30 languages. It won a mountain of awards including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier’s People’s Choice Award and is being adapted for film. Her second novel The Good People set in Ireland in 1825 is also being adapted for film and was also critically acclaimed – Paula Hawkins described it ‘a literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller’ which could be applied to Hannah's work as a whole. While...2021-11-1757 min