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The Good People is intense, powerful and moving. Once again, Kent carefully describes a time and place that is fraught with danger. Here blame, grief, ignorance and superstition all bind together and hover around the heads and hearts of a wretched community, living in cold, dank and joyless hovels and barely surviving. As I was pulled inexorably towards the inevitable, outcomes, I became increasingly world weary and uncomfortable. Hannah Kent’s writing is as lovely as ever, but is so very evocative that I became quite distressed and finally found myself unwilling to pick it up again. I hope to return to this brilliant but awful story when I’m feeling more robust.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Death, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Religious bigotry
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