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Caoilinn in Conversation: Louise Kennedy and Caoilinn Hughes
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Welcome back to our bi-monthly reading series, Caoilinn in Conversation, featuring authors that call the UK and Ireland home, curated by the super-talented Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Wild Laughter. On Thursday, November 10th we helped celebrate Louise Kennedy's new novel, Trespasses.
About the book:
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion.
Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family's pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who's made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment - Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married - Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect.
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.
About the authors:
Louise Kennedy grew up near Belfast. Trespasses is her first novel. She is also the author of a collection of short stories, The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac. She has written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, and BBC Radio 4. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a chef for almost thirty years. She lives in Sligo, Ireland.
Caoilinn Hughes' latest novel, The Wild Laughter, won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award 2021. It was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards' Novel of the Year, the RTÉ Radio 1 Listener's Choice Award 2020, the Dalkey Literary Awards, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her first novel Orchid & The Wasp (2018) won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was a finalist for four other prizes. Her short fiction won The Moth Short Story Prize, the Irish Book Awards' Story of the Year and an O.Henry Prize. She is the 2021 Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
About the book:
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion.
Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family's pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who's made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment - Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married - Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect.
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.
About the authors:
Louise Kennedy grew up near Belfast. Trespasses is her first novel. She is also the author of a collection of short stories, The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac. She has written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, and BBC Radio 4. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a chef for almost thirty years. She lives in Sligo, Ireland.
Caoilinn Hughes' latest novel, The Wild Laughter, won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award 2021. It was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards' Novel of the Year, the RTÉ Radio 1 Listener's Choice Award 2020, the Dalkey Literary Awards, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her first novel Orchid & The Wasp (2018) won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was a finalist for four other prizes. Her short fiction won The Moth Short Story Prize, the Irish Book Awards' Story of the Year and an O.Henry Prize. She is the 2021 Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
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