Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent
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Always Home, Always Homesick
- By: Hannah Kent
- Narrated by: Hannah Kent
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
About this listen
‘In my brief breath of life, might I find a way to fit light to paper?’ In a land of ethereal beauty, within a culture soaked in myth, a young woman discovers the story that will change her life. In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrives at Keflavík Airport in the middle of the Icelandic winter. That night she sleeps off her jet lag and bewilderment in the National Archives of Iceland, unaware that, years later, she will return to the same building to write Burial Rites, the haunting story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last woman executed in Iceland. The novel will go on to launch the author’s stellar literary career and capture the hearts of readers across the globe. Always Home, Always Homesick is Hannah Kent’s exquisite love letter to a land that has forged a nation of storytellers, her ode to the transcendent power of creativity, and her invitation to us all to join her in the realms of mystery, spirit and wonder.
©2025 Hannah Kent (P)2025 Macmillan Australia Audio
Kellie O’Connor
Love in Action
Feeling much gratitude for the privilege of hearing this brilliant story of how Burial Rites came to be. This memoir made me appreciate the magnitude of what Hannah Kent goes through to produce such soulful writing. It’s obvious from her three novels she’s an extraordinary artist, but her memoir lets us glimpse the life blood she pours into her craft.
I am in awe of her willingness to let herself be taken to these depths.
Totally engaging listen and Hannah’s narrative is superb.