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Trespasses
- Narrated by: Brid Brennan
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Bloomsbury presents Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, read by Brid Brennan.
* THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER (The Times) * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 *
* WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR: DEBUT FICTION *
* WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 *
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 *
* AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2022 *
* A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME *
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'Like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller’ RUSSELL KANE
'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES
'Absolutely loved it' MAX PORTER
'A beautiful, devastating novel' NICK HORNBY
One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.
If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.
If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street.
If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt.
There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.
As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like ‘petrol bomb’ and ‘rubber bullets’. And as she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross, tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.
Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.
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A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * GUARDIAN * TELEGRAPH * NEW STATESMAN * DAILY MAIL * IRISH TIMES * IRISH INDEPENDENT * BELFAST TELEGRAPH
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- Anonymous User
- 25-06-2023
Compelling
I loved it. Sad, real, thoughtful and compelling. A work of note. A must read/listen
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- Felicity S
- 16-07-2024
Great setting and time period
I found this a small story about a big time. well written and lots of attention to detail. dragged a bit in rhe middle for me
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- Kerry Kilner
- 03-12-2022
A moving and complex love story
This is an excellent novel that delivers into the complex history of the period of the troubles in Ireland. The sectarian society of the north is played out through the depiction of the lives good people who cross the diving line. Beautifully written, poignant, with thoroughly believable characters.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-05-2023
Enthralling and very moving
This book captured me right from the start. The characters were so real and appealing. The storyline was moving; it had just the right amount of intrigue and balanced simplicity and complexity. I don’t know how accurate to history it was, but it’s impact was impressive.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-11-2023
powerful and important
Irish history is so intriguing and important and I am so glad to have this novel
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- Robyn north
- 05-08-2023
Haunting, beautiful and real
Captures these troubled times in Ireland in an unforgettable story. Wonderful spare language and beautifully read.
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- Chase Literature
- 17-04-2023
Fantastic Novel
This is an exquisitely crafted and engrossing book. I highly recommend reading and or listening to it.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-01-2024
Ok book
Liked the story line, but a bit disjointed. The accent and Irish references were a bit difficult to understand. Not a nice time or place to live
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- Anonymous User
- 02-12-2023
Incredibly deep and moving novel. So compelling I listened straight through
This is a wonderful, thoughtful novel. A complex love story, in a complex time. Such real characters, beautifully developed.
As good a novel as you will read or listen to. I’ve listened to all the Irish long and short listed for the 2023( plus most others) and this as good as all of those novels.
So compelling I listened to it straight through.
Bird Brennan is a fantastic narrator, she did an equally fantastic narration of the Milkman novel.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-07-2024
Great story and so well narrated!
Complete characters, easy to relate to even though their lives are set against the extreme backdrop of Northern Ireland and the troubles. Real, gritty and provocative.
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