Trespasses Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2023

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Trespasses: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 ReviewSometimes you don't need to reinvent the wheel. This is an unashamedly conventional realist novel, but such an exceptional one that it's bound to rekindle even the most cynical reader's appreciation of the form . . . Spellbindingly, heartbreakingly unforgettableDaily Mail, Books of the YearNot many novels mix juicy romance and wartime violence. War-induced longing is a common fictional occurrence - consider Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, or, to a lesser degree, Ian McEwan's Atonement - but a vivid, sexy, not-doomed-feeling love story that also takes a war zone as a central subject rather than simply a setting is rarerAtlanticA first novel that reads nothing like one, this is a tender, fiercely beautiful story . . . Every finely grooved detail here feels authentic'Sunday Times, Books of the YearHands down the best book this year was Trespasses by Louise Kennedy. There has been praise for Kennedy's eye in recreating the Belfast of the mid-70s, but it is the precision of the emotional detail that holds the readers attention: after a while, you forget to exhaleAnne Enright, Irish Times, Books of the YearWe know that civil wars are made up of thousands of small tragedies. But I know few novels that convey the grim predictability of everyday violence during that period so well. Kennedy's careful attention is a welcome counter to Brexit's careless disregard of lives and loves lostNew Statesman, Books of the YearBrilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking . . . I am not a crier, but by the final pages of Trespasses I was in tears. It's a testament to Kennedy's talents that we come to love and care so much about her charactersNew York Times Book ReviewThrilling, wise, and moving, Trespasses is a remarkable novel about the wages of love in a time marked by brutality, strife, and above all, a will to hope. A totally absorbing read -- Brandon Taylor, author of REAL LIFE and FILTHY ANIMALSAbsorbing . . . Wise far beyond its first book status, Trespasses vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin BarryOprah DailyBrilliantly depicted . . . Kennedy has written a captivating first novel which manages to be beautiful and devastating in equal measureWashington PostKennedy's powerful writing, tragic humour and vivid characters will move and haunt youSan Francisco ChronicleWhen I want help there's non-fiction but when I want truth, I go to fiction . . . Louise Kennedy has smashed it out the park with Trespasses. This is a love story for people that would normally watch political thrillers or historical thrillers . . . You can feel the cigarette smoke, you can taste the Irish stew bubbling, you can feel the carpet, and the tension ratchets. It's plotty, it's scary, it's full of eroticism, it's like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller. I love it -- Russell Kane, Stephs Packed LunchKennedy has an impressively light touch for so heavy a subject, writing with a savage beauty about a brutal era . . . Trespasses is not a story that can end well, not in 70s Belfast. But it is testament to Kennedy's power as a storyteller that she makes us think it might. An exceptional debutiHeart-wrenching . . . If the pervading tenor of Kennedy's stories is one of resignation, Trespasses is all the more moving for allowing its protagonists to hope . . . Historical fiction at its finestFinancial TimesThe wonder of the book is that its unassumingly arrow-like narrative can fold so much into its layers: at once intimate and political, it's a love story, a crime drama and a state-of-the-nation period snapshot. Kennedy manages the tension expertly, steadily steering us to an explosive climax with no frillsDaily MailInsightful, humane and utterly determined to find its own freedoms, Trespasses is a bright flare of energy and wit, Kennedy a writer of exceptional empathy, style a Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. 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