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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 721 Chops 246: Love in the time of The Troubles

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Louise Kennedy’s short story collection The End of the World is a Cul-de-sac garnered her all sorts of well-deserved plaudits. Her debut novel, Trespasses, is a page-turning story of love and loss set in Belfast during The Troubles, in which Louise’s spare, lyrical writing brings to uneasy life the reality of people getting on with their lives in a time and place where the unspeakable is just everyday.   In this Chops, Louise chats to our Mick about the Troubles and their legacy, and what problems Brexit and the unresolved difficulties of the Northern Ireland Protocol might mean, starting writing in your 40s, dealing with cancer, and why the joy of doomed love might just mean readers are perverts.  Trespasses is out now, published by Bloomsbury. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Waitrose have added more of your favourites to their new lower prices.

0:03.6

Or is it new, new, lower prices, or newer, new, lower prices?

0:07.9

Well, they've added more, so it could be more, newer, new, lower prices.

0:11.6

Or even the newest of new, lower prices on more.

0:14.2

Ernie, whoo! Waitrose have new, new, lower prices on hundreds of your favourites,

0:19.4

like apples, chicken, and those cheeky ginger nuts. Waitrose.

0:23.0

Food to feel good about.

0:24.9

Selected stores, subjects with availability, prices may vary in a little Waitrose channel islands and concessions.

0:29.9

Hello, hello, Mickey here, welcoming you to this week's Sunday shops, and also wishing you a happy Easter.

0:52.3

No matter your religion or lack thereof, may this podcast find you smeared in chocolate or cheese,

0:58.3

or whatever alternative floats your boat, and enjoying the warm weather predicted for the bank holiday.

1:03.6

Come on up, or whether, don't let us down.

1:06.7

In this chops, I knatted with author Louise Kennedy, who short story collection,

1:11.4

the end of the world as a cul-de-sac, garnered her all sorts of well-deserved plaudits,

1:15.7

and whose debut novel, Trespasses, is a page-turning story of love and loss set in Belfast during the Troubles.

1:22.7

Louise's spare, lyrical writing brings attentions of living in a mixed town of Catholics and Protestants to uneasy life,

1:29.6

as people get on with their lives in a time and place where the unspeakable is just every day.

1:35.0

Louise and I talk about the troubles and their legacy and what problems Brexit and the unresolved difficulties

1:40.0

of the Northern Ireland Protocol might mean for the future, start in writing in your forties,

1:44.7

and indeed the difficulties that surround a great of life at any age, dealing with cancer,

1:50.1

and also why the joy of doomed love might just mean that readers are perverts.

1:54.9

Trespasses is out now, published by Bloomsbury, and Louise is a glorious being.

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