TY - BOOK AU - Kent,Hannah TI - Devotion SN - 9781760556457 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Sydney, NSW PB - Picador Australia KW - Families KW - Prussia (Germany) KW - Fiction KW - Emigration and immigration KW - South Australia KW - Germany KW - Prussia KW - fast KW - Friendship KW - Ocean travel KW - Australian fiction KW - Prussia (Kingdom) KW - Teenage girls KW - Lesbians KW - Bookclub collection KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 1836-1851 KW - AUS historical fiction (South Australia) KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft N2 - 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. South Australia, 1838. A new start in an old land. God, society and nature itself decree Hanne and Thea cannot be together. But within the impossible, is devotion ER -