Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Women's Prize for Fiction | 2023 | Shortlist |
About This Book
In 1970s Northern Ireland, Cushla Lavery is a primary school teacher and barmaid who begins an affair with a married Catholic solicitor, Michael Agnew, and finds herself caught up in the violence of the Troubles in ways she never anticipated. A tense, beautifully written first novel about sectarianism, desire, and complicity.
About the Author
Louise Kennedy is an Irish novelist and short story writer born in Holywood, County Down, in 1972. She worked as a chef for thirty years before publishing her debut short story collection The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac (2021), which won the Edge Hill Prize. Her debut novel Trespasses (2022) won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize 2023. Read more →
