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Cushla Lavery is a multifaceted figure with a strong moral compass in an era when moral courage was scarce. She works as a Catholic schoolteacher in a tiny military town in Northern Ireland. Cushla is gentle, sensitive, and devoted to those she cares about. She is selfless, putting the needs of her students and family first in her life.
- Louise Kennedy
Cushla Lavery is the novel’s caring, lonely, and witty protagonist. At the beginning of the novel, she is 24 years old and has “long dark hair and big eyes” (7). Cushla works at a Catholic school teaching seven- and eight-year-old children. On top of her full-time job, she also serves as the caretaker for her mother, who has an alcohol ...
Trespasses is a historical fiction novel set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The story's protagonist is Cushla Lavery, who lives in a small town near Belfast with her mother. Cushla teaches at a Catholic primary school and helps her brother run their family pub in the evenings. Their pub attracts all sorts of customers, including soldiers.
- Louise Kennedy
Trespasses, Louise Kennedy's 2022 novel, is set in Northern Ireland during the first few years of the Troubles. It tells the story of Cushla Lavery, a young Catholic woman who works as a teacher and falls in love with Michael Agnew, a Protestant barrister. Their relationship is forbidden, and their love affair sets off a chain of events that ...
- Louise Kennedy
Cushla is a young woman from Northern Ireland who finds herself in a difficult family situation. Her mother, Gina, is an unrepentant alcoholic, and her brother, Eamonn, is prone to violent outbursts because he feels humiliated by the way he and his family are treated by the occupying British forces. Cushla works as a schoolteacher at a Catholic ...
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 ...
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Nov 1, 2022 · “Trespasses” revolves around 24-year-old Cushla Lavery, a Catholic schoolteacher living just outside Belfast in the early years of the Troubles, in a small town that is heavily occupied by ...
