Really 4.5 stars. This a beautifully written moving novel about a condemned women in the months before she is sentenced to death. I listened to the audio book and it couldn't have been read by a better narrator. Morven Christie was wonderful. Agnes is charged with murder and until her sentence is carried out she is to live on a farm with a family in the area where she grew up. Needless to say they are not happy about this. However throughout the book they become used to her presence. Agnes's only true form of support is a reverend who comes to see her to show her the way to God before her sentence is carried out. 
 I can't express enough how poetic and beautifully this book was written. You get the true feeling of what it was like to live in Iceland during the time the book takes place. You can even feel the cold in your bones. The characters are realistic and likable. You feel for them. Each of their individual and extremely unique personalities stand out. 
 It was a really good book. I wasn't sure what I would think as it started off a bit slow but as it went on and I got into it I couldn't stop myself. I needed to know more of what happened. 
 Thank you Hannah Kent for presenting this rendition of a true story so elegantly.