An Irish Friendship Frays Across Distance and Dark Truths
Louise Kennedy traces Roisin and Red from 1980s Ireland to London in a haunting friendship story of distance and buried truths. Literary readers will value the atmosphere, emotional restraint and the sense of history pressing on private lives.
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An Irish Friendship Frays Across Distance and Dark Truths
Louise Kennedy traces Roisin and Red from 1980s Ireland to London in a haunting friendship story of distance and buried truths. Literary readers will value the atmosphere, emotional restraint and the sense of history pressing on private lives.
- Book Synopsis
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Roisin and Red meet as teenagers in their small Irish hometown in 1982. Brilliant, sharp-tongued and born to slip through the cracks, Red's reputation for trouble precedes him - but Roisin finds herself swept up in his storm, and soon their connection deepens. When a brush with the law pushes Red into a corner, he escapes their town to start a new life in England. As the years pass, they remain tethered to one another, a fragile thread holding their once fierce friendship together. When Roisin arrives in London, the promise of freedom, of reinvention, and of finding her dear friend calls. But searching for Red leads Roisin to a truth darker than she could have imagined: when you go looking for someone you may uncover parts of yourself along the way that you'd rather stayed buried. And Red - bright, beautiful Red - might not want to be found at all. Stations is a devastating story of love and friendship, and a tender portrait of the choices we blithely make when we are young, unaware that the consequences will reverberate throughout our lives.
Ideal for readers who:
- Like Irish literary fiction about friendship, reinvention and the cost of leaving home.
- Want a story that follows teenage connection into adult consequence.
- Enjoy searches for missing people that become searches for the self.
- Appreciate quiet devastation, emotional restraint and a strong sense of place.
- About The Author
- LOUISE KENNEDY grew up a few miles from Belfast. She is the author of the acclaimed short-story collection, The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac, which won the John McGahern Prize. Her debut novel Trespasses, published in 2022, has been translated into over twenty languages. It won Eason Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards, Book of the Year: Debut Fiction at the British Book Awards and the McKitterick Prize, and was also shortlisted for several awards including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. In 2025, Trespasses was made into a limited TV series by Channel 4, starring Lola Petticrew, Tom Cullen and Gillian Anderson. Before starting her writing career, Kennedy spent nearly thirty years working as a chef. She lives in Sligo.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781526664334
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Circus, (24 September 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 mm
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