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WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 AN
OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2022 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * GUARDIAN *
TELEGRAPH * NEW STATESMAN * IRISH TIMES * IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Like
Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller' RUSSELL KANE
'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times'
MARIAN KEYES 'Absolutely loved it' MAX PORTER 'A beautiful,
devastating novel' NICK HORNBY One by one, she undid each event,
each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a
coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark
street. If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub
on a quiet night in February in his white shirt. There is nothing
special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from
Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never
far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their
lives forever. As people get up each morning and go to work,
school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car
bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the
class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now
includes phrases like 'petrol bomb' and 'rubber bullets'. And as
she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross,
tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she
is working to hold together. Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an
unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in
extraordinary times.
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Trespasses - A Novel
Louise Kennedy
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'A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian 'Kennedy's
voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times 'These
stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ... One of the best
collections I've read in years' Sinead Gleeson A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK
OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE JOHN MCGAHERN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE
KATE O'BRIEN AWARD 2022 The secrets people kept, the lies they
told. In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are
effortlessly cruel to one another, and the natural world is a
primitive salve. Here, women are domestically trapped by
predatorial men, Ireland's folklore and politics loom large, and
poverty - material, emotional, sexual - seeps through every crack.
A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a ghost estate, with
blood on her hands; a young woman is tormented by visions of the
man murdered by her brother during the Troubles; a pregnant mother
fears the worst as her husband grows illegal cannabis with the help
of a vulnerable teenage girl; a woman struggles to forgive herself
after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage. Announcing a
major new voice in literary fiction for the twenty-first century,
these sharp shocks of stories offer flashes of beauty, and even
humour, amidst the harshest of truths.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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