About The Book: The Good People
From Hannah Kent, the bestselling author of Burial Rites, comes The Good
People, set in nineteenth-century Ireland and based on newspaper reports and a
court case from the time.
County Kerry, Ireland, 1825.
Nora, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone
and caring for her young grandson Micheal. Micheal cannot speak and cannot walk
and Nora is desperate to know what is wrong with him. What happened to the
healthy, happy grandson she met when her daughter was still alive?
Mary arrives in the valley to help Nora just as the whispers are