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I had discovered through the process of the previous two novels that so much of my writing could be fed by the research process. 'In writing Devotion, I knew I wasn't going to suddenly jump to a contemporary novel I didn't feel ready to. 'It's certainly not intentional, but I probably do end up researching this time or writing about this time, because I often discover the seeds for future stories while I'm researching another book,' she explains. Kent appears to have carved out a narrow historical niche all her novels take place in the 1820s and 1830s. In 2011, Kent won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award for Burial Rites. The novel was a commercial and critical hit, and is reportedly being adapted for screen by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name), with Jennifer Lawrence to star. Instead, inspired by the story of Agnes Magnusdottir, she wrote Burial Rites. Kent never set out to become a historical fiction writer when she studied creative writing at university, she intended to write plays. With Kent's exquisite prose, Devotion follows Hanne and Thea across oceans and spiritual planes, taking their love story from Europe to Australia and playing thrillingly with history and fiction. 'I really just wanted to write about two girls falling in love.' 'I have lived my entire life hungry for narratives that represent something akin to what I have experienced in my own life вЂ¦ something that I would have appreciated when I was younger, and something that my wife would like. 'In the end, I just threw all caution to the wind and said: 'No, I want to write a love story that I can relate to and that pleases me - and if some people dislike that, well at least I'll enjoy reading it.'

'I was aware of having an audience initially, and what sort of story people might want to read about,' she recalls. But when the same-sex marriage vote passed and her partner Heidi proposed, she realised she wanted to tell a different story. Kent had first set out to write a novel about female friendship. She also can't make a friend - until Thea and her family move to Kay. The novel's heroine, Hanne, is on the cusp of womanhood and struggling to meet the domestic expectations placed on her by her family and community.

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Hannah Kent speaks to Claire Nichols Download 72.8 MBДevotion begins in 1836, with a community of Old Lutherans who have settled temporarily in the Prussian town of Kay.