All around them the hard men come and go, with waves of bigotry threatening to turn to violence at any moment. Her lover Michael Agnew, a Protestant barrister, brings not only the reek of whiskey and tobacco to our nostrils but also many of the complexities that his liberal-leaning co-religionists had to deal with at the time, especially those in the legal profession. Cushla Lavery, the main character, is a teacher at a Catholic school and this allows us to see the horrors unfolding around her in a variety of compelling ways through the eyes of her pupils. Louise Kennedy evokes every detail of the city in the mid 70s, which ring true if you happen to have lived through them. I really loved this book, the tale of a very believable love affair across the Ulster sectarian divide, expertly narrated by Brid Brennan (who has a full grasp of the Belfast idiom). Picked as a highlight for 2022 by: The Times, i paper, New Statesman, New European, Irish Times, Irish Independent.Ī Powerful and Poignant Look Back at the Troubles Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times. 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. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like ‘petrol bomb’ and ‘rubber bullets’.
But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.Īs 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. There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street. One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. Bloomsbury presents Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, read by Brid Brennan.
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