Review: The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp - Leonie Agnew

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Review: The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp - Leonie Agnew - April 2023

Attempting to clear my TBR bookshelf, I grabbed this book off my shelf. I had been excited to read this one for several reasons from the cover, the fact it contained a mobile library and stories, the announcement that it won the Tessa Duder Award, and that it was a New Zealand fiction story. All those factors and the enjoyment of this book made it a great reading experience for me. In The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp, we meet a teenager named Hannah who is doing community service when an accident and impulse thought to cause a lady to crash her car and lose her unborn baby. The whole small town has shunned her and views her now as a bad seed. This accident has caused a domino effect for Hannah as now everyone just expects her to make mistakes and jump to conclusions like she is the "evil one". After an argument with her mum, Hannah finds a strange Mobile Library. As she reads the stories, she learns that they are hidden tales about the people in her community. One day, she finds her book which talks about the incident leading up to her adoption. She doesn't remember much about it, but the book, mentions she has a brother Max. This is news to Hannah. When she steals the book, she realizes it has the power for the characters to come alive and now Hannah is reunited with not only her mum Jasmine but also her brother Max. What happens though when fantasy and reality clash and Hannah has to say goodbye to the life she has created? Find out in this wonderful NZ magical realism tale by Leonie Agnew - The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp.


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