Stations - Louise Kennedy

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** PRE-ORDER NOW - FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF TRESPASSES **'I loved it for the way it holds a national sorrow' ANNE ENRIGHT'Moving, compassionate, a touching love story' DAVID NICHOLLS'I gulped this down - convinced, fascinated and moved by every page' EMMA DONOGHUE'A transcendent exploration of yearning, transformation and rescue' MIN JIN LEE_____R�is�n and Red meet as teenagers in their small Irish hometown in 1982. Brilliant, sharp-tongued and born to slip through the cracks, Red's reputation for trouble precedes him - but R�is�n finds herself swept up in his storm, and soon their connection deepens. When a brush with the law pushes Red into a corner, he escapes their town to start a new life in England. As the years pass, they remain tethered to one another, a fragile thread holding their once fierce friendship together. When R�is�n arrives in London, the promise of freedom, of reinvention, and of finding her dear friend calls. But searching for Red leads R�is�n to a truth darker than she could have imagined: when you go looking for someone you may uncover parts of yourself along the way that you'd rather stayed buried. And Red - bright, beautiful Red - might not want to be found at all. Stations is a devastating story of love and friendship, and a tender portrait of the choices we blithely make when we are young, unaware that the consequences will reverberate throughout our lives. _____'A beautiful novel about loss and being lost' NICK HORNBY'Heartbreakingly real and utterly compelling' ROISIN O'DONNELL'One of the most gifted storytellers in contemporary Irish fiction' ELAINE FEENEY