Kate Evans

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The Bookshelf · Melbourne Writers' Festival with Hannah Kent and Beejay Silcox · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

And should this other story...

which is the big one that we're not talking about, should this have been its own separate novel?

And then I got to the end and I thought, well, no, she needed to have all that stuff there because it ties everything together.

But I was at about two thirds of the way through.

I thought, hang on, am I reading something completely different?

Because I loved the first half.

It was extraordinary.

And then it had to do what it did.

But there are entire lives that go past in one sentence or one paragraph.

Just astounding.

But Jonathan, we haven't even talked about the book that you and I have read together.

But guess what?

This one takes us back to the very first thing that I asked Hannah Kent, which is about homesickness, belonging, moving between countries and communities.

So actually, Hannah, even though you haven't read this one, we're expecting you to have opinions.

Oh, excellent.

I will chime in.

Yes.

Although perhaps we should say who he is.

So he's a British Cotetian writer, is that how you say it?

But when it opens, so it opens on a ship with this man who's about 27.

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