Wednesday, 17 February 2021

Finished things - the Saturday Slaughters Book

 



This was Burial Rites by Hannah Kent.

It's a grim but gripping and beautifully written story which deals ( in a saga like way)  with an unfolding tale of murder and retribution, raising important questions around  justice and social conformity while presenting the reader with a fascinating picture of 19th Century Iceland and some of the people who lived there. 

Well that's what everyone else in the reading group thought.

As sometimes happens, I beg to differ. 

4 comments:

  1. Ah. You were a lone voice crying in the wilderness, then?

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    1. yup. although I couldn't actually get a word in, one of our members does tend to the dominating end of the spectrum so it's tricky when he's there.

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