{"id":21854,"date":"2026-02-11T17:53:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/trespasses\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:55:36","slug":"trespasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/trespasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Trespasses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Read: Trespasses by Louise Kennedy \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 📚<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northern Ireland 1975 Cushla young RC teacher starts an affair with a Married Protestant Lawyer & gets mixed up with a mixed family of a pupil. Spent the whole book tensed against the expected end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While in Dublin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They walked up Grafton Street. Buskers were playing guitars, huddles of youths standing about watching them.
Something was wrong. She looked up and down the street and didn’t know what it was until she was in the doorway of Switzers, sliding her handbag off her shoulder and holding it open. Michael laughed. You’re not in Kansas any more, he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I remember in the 70s my aunt on a visit to Glasgow going up to the security guard in M&S & opening her handbag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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