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Apr 14, 2022 · 39,504 ratings4,100 reviews. 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.
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- Louise Kennedy
Nov 1, 2022 · Louise Kennedy’s debut novel, “Trespasses,” considers the relationship of a Catholic woman and a Protestant man.
Oct 31, 2022 · Louise Kennedy recreates the Troubles in her restrained, absorbing debut, Trespasses, set in Belfast in the mid-1970s. The fog of war, even a guerrilla war, is still a fog. Meet Cushla Lavery, an occasional Catholic and 24-year-old schoolteacher who moonlights as a bartender in her family’s pub.
- Contributing Books Editor, Oprah Daily
Nov 1, 2022 · A clandestine affair unfolds with tragic inevitability during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Cushla Lavery, in her 20s, lives with her mother on the outskirts of the battlefield that was Belfast in the 1970s. Her days are spent teaching young children in a Catholic school, and her evenings are spent tending to her mother’s alcohol-fueled ...
- Louise Kennedy
“Trespasses, set in 1970s Northern Ireland, is Kennedy’s first novel and it has found considerable acclaim—garnering endorsements from the likes of Sarah Moss, Max Porter, and Nick Hornby. It follows a young, female teacher who falls for a married man as The Troubles tear their community apart.
Trespasses is a novel distinguished by a quality rare in fiction at any time: a sense of utter conviction. It is a story told with such compulsive attention to the textures of its world that every page feels like a moral and intellectual event ...
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Nov 1, 2022 · Trespasses by Louise Kennedy has an overall rating of Rave based on 16 book reviews.
