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Also by Louise Kennedy:

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac, December 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Trespasses, November 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Trespasses, November 2022
Hardcover / e-Book

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac
Louise Kennedy

Riverhead Books
December 2023
On Sale: December 5, 2023
304 pages
ISBN: 0593540921
EAN: 9780593540923
Kindle: B0BXKGHRDQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Small Town | Novella / Short Story

Brilliant, dark stories of women’s lives by “a very major talent” (Joseph O’Connor, Irish Times)

In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women’s lives are etched by poverty—material, emotional, sexual—but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they’ve been dealt.

A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate, with blood on her hands. An expectant mother’s worst fears about her husband’s entanglement with a teenage girl are confirmed. A sister is tormented by visions of the man her brother murdered during the Troubles. A woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage. Plumbing the depths of intimacy, violence, and redemption, these stories are “dazzling, heartbreaking . . . keen to share the lessons of a lifetime” (Guardian).

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