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**Short-listed for ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2022**
**Long-listed for Australian Book Design Awards 2022**
**Short-listed for Indie Book Awards Fiction 2022**
**Winner for ABIA Audiobook of the Year 2022**
From the bestselling author of Burial Rites
Prussia, 1836
Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity . . . until she meets Thea.
Ocean, 1838
The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at odds with their King's order for reform. Forced to flee religious persecution, the families of Kay board a crowded, disease-riddled ship bound for the new colony of South Australia. In the face of brutal hardship, the beauty of whale song enters Hanne's heart, along with the miracle of her love for Thea. Theirs is a bond that nothing can break.
The whale passed. The music faded.
Author: Hannah Kent
Paperback Published 27 June 2023 432 pages
Previous edition published 27 September 2022
'Utterly original. A glorious, heartbreaking love story of infinite beauty' - Heather Rose
'I fell in love with language again reading it. Devotion is impossibly good' - Evie Wyld