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  1. Apr 14, 2022 · Louise Kennedy grew up near Belfast. Trespasses is her first novel. She is also the author of a collection of short stories, The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac. She has written for The Guardian, The Irish Times, and BBC Radio 4. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a chef for almost thirty years. She lives in Sligo, Ireland.

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  2. May 20, 2022 · It is a long time before the water runs clear. In Trespasses, this eye for the telling detail is bolstered by a narrative style that flickers between sharp precision and haziness, as if the protagonist’s memories are blurred at the edges. The novel opens – and ends – in 2015, with a woman in her mid-sixties, Cushla Lavery, gazing at a ...

  3. Apr 28, 2022 · Trespasses is not a story that can end well, not in 70s Belfast. But it is testament to Kennedy’s power as a storyteller that she makes us think it might. An exceptional debut that cements ...

  4. Nov 1, 2022 · DON’T AGREE TO SEE HIM EVERY SINGLE TIME IT SUITS HIM …”. In “Trespasses,” as in life, humor provides an antidote to the darkest times. When an alarm sounds at school and all the ...

  5. Slow news days don’t exist, and the book gathers a deathly momentum as it hurtles towards its shocking climax. In quick-witted Cushla, Kennedy has created a compelling protagonist who keenly ...

  6. Oct 31, 2022 · The past leaves its thumbprints on us all, and on none more than an emerging generation of dazzling literary talent. 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.

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  8. Oct 28, 2022 · In ‘Trespasses,’ an affair can be fatal during Ireland’s Troubles. In Louise Kennedy’s debut novel, the threat of judgment is ever-present and inescapable. “A free country, indeed ...

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