Trespasses : The most beautiful, devastating love story you’ll read this year

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Author: Louise Kennedy

Europe

Published on 23 October 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.

**NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES – STREAMING ON CHANNEL 4**THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER (The Times), SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES'A beautiful, devastating novel' NICK HORNBYOne by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.

If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street.

If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt.

There 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.

Now a major TV series starring Lola Petticrew, Tom Cullen and Gillian Anderson, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.

* WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR: DEBUT FICTION ** WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 ** WINNER OF THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2023 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 ** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2022 ** A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME ** THE CRITICS' MOST-PICKED BOOK OF THE YEAR*