Louise Kennedy interview: ‘There was a conditional thing on Catholics. We had to live quite quietly and not really rub anybody’s nose in it’
The author of the eagerly anticipated first novel Trespasses says her early childhood in the North forms a ‘hot space’, or a primal source, from which most of her writing comes
“I’m a lucky bitch, really,” Louise Kennedy says. “There are loads of people who have written brilliant books and they haven’t managed to get published or haven’t got the attention mine’s getting.”
We’re speaking ahead of the release of her first novel Trespasses, one of the most anticipated titles of 2022, following the success of her debut short story collection The End of the World is a Cul de Sac. To the casual observer, it ...
