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‘We left Ireland because there wasn’t work – and we wanted to get the hell away’: Trespasses author Louise Kennedy

Her Troubles-set debut became a hit TV series starring Gillian Anderson. Now the novelist has returned to her teen years for a follow-up. She talks about her journey from chef to author, and how her cancer diagnosis inspired her to write Louise Kennedy’s life has hardly wanted…

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