Stations

Louise Kennedy author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publishing:24th Sep '26

£20.00

This title is due to be published on 24th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Stations cover

The unforgettable new novel from the no. 1 bestselling, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Trespasses – a devastating tale of love, friendship, and the choices that shape our lives

** PRE-ORDER NOW – FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF TRESPASSES **

Róisín 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 Róisín 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 Róisín arrives in London, the promise of freedom, of reinvention, and of finding her dear friend calls.

But searching for Red leads Róisín 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.

Louise Kennedy’s brilliant Stations is a moving and immersive novel about first love, addiction, and regret. Smart, propulsive, and emotionally powerful, this narrative is a transcendent exploration of yearning, transformation and rescue. * Min Jin Lee, bestselling author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires *
What a beautiful book ... Róisín’s quest for the love of a man who can never reciprocate her own obsessive passion is an odyssey of its own. Stations will live in my head for a long time to come. * Liz Nugent, bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond *
This is the story of a profound, ambiguous love, spanning decades, between two wounded emigrants adrift in London. Place and feeling are uncannily tangible. It's funny, perceptive, carnal, laced with startling sentences and tremendously absorbing and revealing. Any time I was away from it I missed it. * Timothy O'Grady, author of I Could Read the Sky *

ISBN: 9781526664327

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

320 pages