Books
by Louise Kennedy
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Trespasses |
Cushla, a young teacher just outside Belfast, meets Michael in her family pub and so it begins. A beautiful and heartbreaking account of a secret affair set in the middle of sectarian tensions and violence at the height of the Troubles. This is so well written with every detail drawing you in to Cushla’s moments of joy and despair. Her relationships with her Michael, his friends , her family, colleagues and pupils are brilliantly realistic. I loved it - my favourite read of this year.
(Rebecca Howell - bwl 109 Summer 2023) |
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Trespasses |
Catholic school teacher Cushla and protestant lawyer Michael fall in love in Belfast in the midst of the Troubles. Kennedy writes with absolute conviction of their attempts to carve out happiness in the shadow of hatred and violence. Cushla helping the deprived school child Davey, Michael defending wrongly accused Catholic youth, both attempting to bring normal goodness into a hellish world. Can it end happily? I won't give away the ending of this extremely moving story.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 109 Summer 2023) |
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