![]() ![]() A solid character portrait emerges from the turbulent backdrop. ![]() The straightforward prose style can be wearing in its endless accrual of detail, but Kennedy does a lovely job at capturing Cushla’s mixed feelings and her determination to live her life during wartime. While the romance is at the center of the story, Cushla’s friendship with one of her primary school students whose father is almost killed during a sectarian attack and her troubled relationship with her alcoholic mother add substance. As tender as it is unflinching, Trespasses is a heart-pounding, heart-rending drama of thwarted love and irreconcilable loyalties, in a place what you come from seems to count more than what you do or whom you cherish. Kennedy does a marvelous job at portraying Cushla’s immense guilt and passion sparked by the affair, which offers a much-needed distraction for her from the bombings and murders claimed by the IRA and the UDA. This is the story of a a young woman, the main character Cushla, who gets caught between her loyalty to her community and a passion that may end up proving dangerous. The story takes place in Northern Ireland during a time called the Troubles. ![]() ![]() Their clandestine meetings start once Michael asks Cushla to give him and his friends Irish lessons, and soon they’re spending nights together. Trespasses is a 2022 novel by Louise Kennedy. In the mid-1970s, Cushla Lavery, a 24-year-old Catholic teacher, falls in love with Michael Agnew, an older married Protestant barrister who has a reputation for defending the rights of the Catholics. Kennedy ( The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac) delivers an engaging if sometimes clunky story of a forbidden affair between a Catholic and a Protestant during the Troubles. ![]()
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