Trespasses

Trespasses
Louise Kennedy
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 304pg
1 Nov 2022 US
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9780593540893
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The breathtaking first novel from LOUISE KENNEDYAn Observer Debut Novelist of 2022A 2022 highlight for: The Times * i paper * New Statesman * New European * Irish Times * Irish Independent' A beautiful, devastating novel' NICK HORNBY' Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES' Trespasses touches tenderly and hits hard . . . Every word rings true' EMMA DONOGHUECushla Lavery lives with her mother in a small town near Belfast. At twenty-four, she splits her time between her day job as a teacher to a class of seven-year-olds, and regular bartending shifts in the pub owned by her family. It' s here, on a day like any other - as the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploding, another man shot, killed, beaten or left for dead - that she meets Michael Agnew, an older (and married) barrister who draws her into his sophisticated group of friends. When the father of a young boy in her class becomes the victim of a savage attack, Cushla is compelled to help his family. But as her affair with Michael intensifies, political tensions in the town escalate, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together. As tender as it is unflinching, Trespasses is a masterfully executed and intimate portrait of those caught between the warring realms of the personal and political, rooted in a turbulent and brutally imagined moment of history - where it' s not just what you do that matters, but what you are. -----------
I hardly have words for how viscerally this book affected me, how much it moved me. Pitch-perfect in its evocation of its time and place, unflinching in the rawness of its longing, Trespasses is an extraordinary read - it will break your heart -- Lucy Caldwell Louise Kennedy' s Trespasses touches tenderly and hits hard - a compulsively readable love story which is also a lament for a society agonizingly divided against itself. Every word rings true -- Emma Donoghue A layered, involving story, told with artfully quiet symbolism and remarkable narrative control * Observer * I stayed up until six a. m. ON A WEEKNIGHT to finish it. I was poleaxed by it. I grew up in 1970s Northern Ireland so I recognise everything in it, but I have never read a novel that so faithfully captures it. Louise Kennedy dares to write things that readers might find a bit shocking - the crude and the cruel. It' s raw. But I was surprised at the amount of kindness shown too. She does not stint -- Diana Henry Trespasses is a beautiful, devastating novel. It feels real and true, and it loves its characters, utterly authentic people trying to live ordinary lives in desperate times. This book will last -- Nick Hornby [Louise Kennedy' s] debut novel is incredible. Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times, I was consumed by it -- Marian Keyes, Twitter
Louise Kennedy grew up in Holywood, Co. Down. Her short stories have appeared in journals including The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine, Banshee, Wasifiri and Ambit and she has written for the Guardian, Irish Times, BBC Radio 4 and RTE Radio 1. Her work has won prizes and she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in both 2019 and 2020. Before starting her writing career, she spent nearly thirty years working as a chef. She lives in Sligo with her husband and two children.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780593540893
Published: 1 Nov 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Riverhead Books (US)
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 521g
Pages: 304

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