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The Good People Playaway by Hannah Kent; Caroline Lennon; Hachette Audio (Firm); Findaway World, LLC.; Playaway Digital Audio is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Good People Playaway about?
From the bestselling author of the multi-award-winning Burial Rites, with new novel Devotion coming soon."A thoroughly engrossing entrée into the macabre nature of a vanished society, its virtues and its follies and its lethal impulses." - Thomas Keneally, winner of the Booker Prize County Kerry, Ireland, 1825. The fires on the hills smouldered orange as the women left, pockets charged with ashes to guard them from the night. Watching them fade into the grey fall of snow, Nance thought she could hear Maggie's voice. A whisper in the dark."Some folk are born different, Nance. They are born on the outside of things, with a skin a little thinner, eyes a little keener to what goes unnoticed by most. Their hearts swallow more blood than ordinary hearts; the river runs differently for them." Nóra Leahy has lost her daughter and her husband in the same year and is now burdened with the care of her four-year-old grandson, Micheál. The boy cannot walk, or speak, and Nora, mistrustful of the tongues of gossip, has kept the child hidden from those who might see in his deformity evidence of otherworldly interference. Alone, hedged in by rumour, Mary and her mistress seek out the only perso
Who reads The Good People Playaway?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Hannah Kent; Caroline Lennon; Hachette Audio (Firm); Findaway World, LLC.; Playaway Digital Audio
- Publisher
- Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781760550868
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (4,291 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14