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Trespasses / Louise Kennedy.
"Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering debut novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593540893 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 292 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First North American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2022"--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Life change events > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Women teachers > Northern Ireland > Belfast > Fiction. Northern Ireland > History > 1968-1998 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. |
- Baker & Taylor
"Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering debut novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love"-- - Baker & Taylor
Cushla, living a quiet life with her mother near Belfast, finds herself caught between allegiance to her community and unsanctioned love when her affair with a married, Protestant barrister, whoâs made a name for himself defending IRA members, threatens everything and everyone she most wants to protect. - Penguin Putnam
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
âBrilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking.ââJ.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Book Review
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âTRESPASSES vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin Barry.â âOprah Daily
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, teaching at a parochial school and moonlighting at her familyâs pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a Protestant barrister whoâs made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment, 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.
