Trespasses
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Journal Entry 1 by Rach260 from East Maitland, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, March 29, 2023
There’s been a fair bit of praise for this one in my bookish social media. It almost lived up to the hype - enjoyable.
The Blurb:
One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.
If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.
If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street.
If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt.
There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.
As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like petrol bom' and rubber bullet' . And as she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross, tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.
Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.
The Blurb:
One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.
If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.
If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street.
If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt.
There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.
As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like petrol bom' and rubber bullet' . And as she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross, tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.
Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.
thank you so much for tagging me with this wishlist title :)
i put it on my wishlist after it was on many lists at the end of last year and since then it has gone on to be long/shortlisted for some awards
it is sure to travel again as it is on several wishlists
trivia - the parcel weighed 222g
thanks again
happy reading
;)
i put it on my wishlist after it was on many lists at the end of last year and since then it has gone on to be long/shortlisted for some awards
it is sure to travel again as it is on several wishlists
trivia - the parcel weighed 222g
thanks again
happy reading
;)