Trespasses Summary
Kennedy Louise

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Trespasses Overview

Louise Kennedy's Trespasses tells the story of Cushla Lavery, a young Irish woman who initiates an illicit romance with an English barrister named Michael Agnew in the midst of the Troubles. Set in and around Belfast and against a backdrop of violence in Northern Ireland, the novel tracks Cushla's personal tribulations as tensions between Irish revolutionary forces and English settlers come to a boil. The novel explores themes of politics, religion, grief, infidelity, and feminism.