With new novel The Good People, Hannah Kent moves past Burial Rites

By Natasha Rudra
Updated December 5 2016 - 12:08pm, first published September 30 2016 - 11:45pm
Author Hannah Kent. Photo: Supplied
Author Hannah Kent. Photo: Supplied

You could almost look at at it as a case of two for the price of one. Hannah Kent's 2013 debut novel Burial Rites - the story of an Icelandic woman beheaded for her role in a dual murder - might have been one of the most talked about first novels in recent memory. But it also sowed the seed of her second novel, The Good People.