Book Review: Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, a "love story in the time of the troubles"

Isabel Conway explores the Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, which centers on "some of the darkest days on this island"

The backdrop for Louise Kennedy’s debut novel centres on some of the darkest days on this island.

 ‘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 during the seventies era of the Northern Ireland Troubles in recently graduated teacher Cushla’s class has a grotesque fictional resonance now.