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Apr 8, 2021 · In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise Kennedy reveals how ordinary lives can get caught up in a wider, national drama. Sarah, abandoned by her partner, sits alone in their brand new house. Orla, facing the strange revenge of her husband, is forced to judge a contest in the local fête.
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About The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac. Brilliant, dark stories of women’s lives by “a very major talent” (Joseph O’Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women’s lives are etched by poverty—material, emotional, sexual—but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the ...
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Apr 1, 2021 · The End of the World is a Cul de Sac Hardcover – 1 April 2021. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac. Hardcover – 1 April 2021. by Louise Kennedy (Author) 4.2 570 ratings. See all formats and editions. 'A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian. 'Kennedy's voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times.
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May 26, 2022 · The End of the World is a Cul de Sac. Paperback – 26 May 2022. by Louise Kennedy (Author) 4.2 576 ratings. See all formats and editions. Save 5% on any 4 Terms. 'A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian. 'Kennedy's voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times. 'These stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ...
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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 ...
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Dec 5, 2023 · New York Times Bestseller. The sequel to It Ends With Us (2016) shows the aftermath of domestic violence through the eyes of a single mother. Lily Bloom is still running a flower shop; her abusive ex-husband, Ryle Kincaid, is still a surgeon. But now they’re co-parenting a daughter, Emerson, who's almost a year old.
Apr 1, 2021 · In The End of the World is a Cul-De-Sac, she has produced a remarkable collection of short stories. -- Nick Laird To carve such gilded stories as these from such fathomless gorges of despair would be an accomplishment for an old master, let alone for a relative newbie. Yet Kennedy's spritz of humour, as black as the holes these women are in ...
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