Today's the day we announce a new Read With Us book for spring! You might already be aware of this if you were able to attend the last Zoom discussion for The Shipping News, but now everyone will know. Would you like to read a book that is Longlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2023? How about if the same book is also the winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2022, Shortlisted for the British Book of the Year: Debut Fiction 2022, and Shortlisted for Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2022? Enough listing of awards ...
The book is Trespasses by Louise Kennedy.
It's about a young Catholic woman in Belfast in the 70s, at the height of the Troubles. Cushla Lavery is a primary school teacher who works an occasional shift in the family pub, where she meets Michael Agnew. He is handsome, middle-aged, sophisticated, and married. Michael is a Protestant barrister who defends young Catholic men who have been unjustly arrested. You can only imagine the life-and-death problems that Cushla encounters.
But you don't have to imagine them, you can read Louise Kennedy's detail-oriented novel. It's available from Amazon here, your local bookseller, and I didn't have a long wait for the audio and Kindle copies from my library.
Kym, Carole, and I will be talking about the book, giving additional information, and doing promotional posts throughout April and May. Discussion day for Trespasses is scheduled for Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at 7:00 pm Eastern time, so mark your calendars. We'll ask questions on our blogs that day and then host the always fun, educational, and entertaining Zoom discussion.
“Booby trap. Incendiary device. Gelignite. Nitroglycerine. Petrol bomb. Rubber bullets. Saracen. Internment. The Special Powers Act. Vanguard. The vocabulary of a seven-year-old child now.”
I hope you'll Read With Us and discover more about the alarming everyday vocabulary in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.
Started this the other night (almost no wait at my library for the hard copy). Thoroughly enjoying so far.
ReplyDeleteI've made a good start on it just this week, Bonny. I'm really liking it so far, and I do think it'll be a highly discussable book. :-)
ReplyDeleteI have a few weeks yet on the wait list, but I am very eager to get started!
ReplyDeleteMy copy arrived in the mail just yesterday! (I had a long wait at the library, so I ordered a paperback from Blackwell's.) Looking forward to it!
ReplyDeleteI have it from Libby and I'm looking forward to reading it soon!
ReplyDeleteI read this a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I look forward to discussing this one!
ReplyDeleteI haven't finished it yet, but I think it will make for a good discussion. I hope we're discussing this on a day you are available!
DeleteIt's good to read these reviews. I'll check my library for copies.
ReplyDeleteIreland is one of my favorite subjects and this is a great book with a lot of drama and building of tension. The discussion should be interesting.
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