Siempre en casa, siempre lejos de casa

When she was seventeen, Hannah Kent traveled alone from Australia to northern Iceland. Although she didn't speak Icelandic and knew almost nothing about the country, she was sent to a remote, particularly dark and silent region. There, she learned of a gruesome event from the 19th century: a woman was beheaded in the public square, accused of killing two men. This event would later become the seed of Funeral Rites, the successful novel that launched Kent's career. Years later, in a lockdown Australia, with a newborn daughter, the author revisits her past. Always Home, Always Away is an attempt to connect the dots between the young woman who longed to disappear and the now established writer who has learned to find her place, while also serving as a travelogue and a love letter to one of the few territories that, even amidst the rise of tourism, still retains its shadows and mystery.