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Trespasses (Paperback)
Louise Kennedy
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Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion.
Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family's pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who's made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment - Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married - Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect.
As tender as it is unflinching, Trespasses is a heart-pounding, heart-rending drama of thwarted love and irreconcilable loyalties, in a place what you come from seems to count more than what you do, or whom you cherish.
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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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