Devotion by Hannah Kent review – historic queer love story overwhelmed by solemn ecstasy

While Devotion skims over its knottier racial issues, Kent’s fans will find a lot to savour in her lush and sensory third novel

Readers have come to expect certain things from Australian author Hannah Kent: immaculate research, immersive descriptions of nature, sensitive portraits of women on the fringe. The author’s third novel delivers on all points.

But while Devotion is structured around tragedy (portentously signposted by “Before” and “After” sections), she has adamantly set out to write a book of optimism and joy; an antidote, as she told Guardian Australia, to queer love stories centred in pain and shame.

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