Trespasses : Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2001) As she retreats further into

As she retreats further into her own world

the third in his twenty-eighth

One frigid morning in an uncharacteristic burst of generosity

and 'candid and humorous' by the Times

But there is a traitor in the Nexus

Trespasses : Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2001) As she retreats further intoThere is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever. As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven year