![]() But maybe I’m being harsh - or too cynical. ![]() Throw in the complexities of their religious divide - she’s Catholic, he’s Protestant - class differences and a bloody and violent sectarian war playing out around them, then the chance of a happy-ever-after seems particularly far-fetched. But as much as I enjoyed it on a superficial level, I found the storyline predictable and cliched.Īt one point, Cushla Lavery, the main character, tells her lover: “This is going to end badly, isn’t it?” And I wondered why it had taken her so long to figure it out because when a young woman falls for an older married man it never really ends well. Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2022 and shortlisted for a slew of other awards, Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses is the tale of a doomed love affair set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.Įvery second person in the world seems to have read it - and loved it. ![]() ![]() Fiction – Kindle edition Bloomsbury Circus 320 pages 2022. ![]()
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