Louise Kennedy
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Sep 28, 2026
Louise KennedyGUEST
There's loads to come if I live long enough.
Matt CooperHOST
Louise Kennedy, it's great seeing you again.
Matt CooperHOST
I love it.
Matt CooperHOST
It is definitely going to be one of the novels of the year, possibly the novel of the year.
Mary Webber O'MalleyGUEST
Well, Mary, what's up next for you? Next for me, I am taking readers to Ireland.
Mary Webber O'MalleyGUEST
This is Stations by Louise Kennedy.
Mary Webber O'MalleyGUEST
I loved her book Trespasses.
Mary Webber O'MalleyGUEST
This is not feel good reading at any level.
Mary Webber O'MalleyGUEST
They are so close, but they still don't have the relationship that she would like them to have.
Mary Webber O'MalleyGUEST
She eventually moves on and goes on about her life it just this this writing is so so atmospheric and this would just make a phenomenal book club title there's so much to talk about within it about families it's a coming of age it's uh you know who we leave behind in order to save ourselves The characters are incredibly memorable and the places, this would make a perfect limited series.
Mary Webber O'MalleyGUEST
I can see the settings that Louise Kennedy has put before us.
Mary Webber O'MalleyGUEST
So this is Stations by Louise Kennedy.
James CrawfordHOST
[chime] Welcome to the program, where an author tells us about their new novel and reveals three other works that inspired its creation.
James CrawfordHOST
My guest today, Louise Kennedy, worked for 30 years as a chef before a friend cajoled her into joining a creative writing group.
James CrawfordHOST
Safe to say that this was a life-changing moment.
James CrawfordHOST
Her debut collection of short stories, The End of the World is a Cul-de-sac, won the prestigious John McGahern Prize.
James CrawfordHOST
A Sunday Times bestseller, it was also nominated for no less than eight awards, including short listings for the British Book Awards Book of the Year and the Women's Prize for Fiction.
James CrawfordHOST
Now, she returns with her second novel, Stations, a tale of enduring teenage friendship and love, that begins in the 1980s and goes on to span three decades as it moves back and forth between Ireland and London.
James CrawfordHOST
Louise Kennedy, welcome to Take Four Books.
Louise KennedyGUEST
Thank you very much, Jamie.
Amanda MoulsonHOST
We will.
Amanda MoulsonHOST
I also want to briefly mention Stations by Louise Kennedy.
Amanda MoulsonHOST
In my continuing literary obsession with the Troubles and all things Ireland, this is a book that follows trespasses.
Amanda MoulsonHOST
But instead of being set in Ireland, it follows two teens who make a new life in London, which is a sojourn that many, many people of Irish descent have followed.
MichelleNARRATOR
New CBS series mixes scandalous romance and historical drama by Robert Lloyd.
MichelleNARRATOR
New on PBS, Trespasses, a four-part adaptation of Louise Kennedy's 2022 debut novel, is a story of love in a time of cuck-holler.
MichelleNARRATOR
Set outside of Belfast in 1975, during the Troubles, it follows a clandestine affair between Kushla Lavoria, played by Lola Petticrew, the serial killer in Furious.
MichelleNARRATOR
A 24-year-old Catholic elementary school teacher and Michael Agnew, played by Tom Cullen, an older, married Protestant barrister known for defending stone-throwing Catholic youth with an eye to keeping them out of the Irish Republican army.
Cassie McCulloughHOST
Also today, a story of friendship, exile and...
Cassie McCulloughHOST
the fraught process of returning home, and that's in Louise Kennedy's Irish novel, Stations.
Cassie McCulloughHOST
Tony
Kate EvansHOST
Burch is going to join us to talk about that one.
13 MINS LATER
Kate EvansHOST
Well, look, we've got a novel from New Zealand with a gothic vaudevillage for you, BJ, and exile and return in Ireland with you, Tony.
Kate EvansHOST
So how about we start with that one?
Cassie McCulloughHOST
Louise Kennedy is an Irish writer who turned to fiction after 30 years working as a chef, partly in response to serious
Kate EvansHOST
health issues.
Oliver CallanHOST
51551 is the text.
Oliver CallanHOST
Louise Kennedy's new book, Stations.
Oliver CallanHOST
It tells the story of accidental friends, Roisin and Red.
Oliver CallanHOST
They meet as teenagers in Kildare.
Oliver CallanHOST
And it's a very relatable kind of love story.
Oliver CallanHOST
It's also set in the 80s and beyond with all the drink and the squats and the oddball pot shows, people called Octavia included.
Oliver CallanHOST
Louise Kennedy is in Belfast.
Oliver CallanHOST
Good morning, Louise.
Brian DohertyGUEST
We were just talking
Oliver CallanHOST
this morning with Louise Kennedy about people, the Irish who disappeared to London.
Oliver CallanHOST
Some of them disappeared there.
Oliver CallanHOST
Yeah, well, we were
TomHOST
I'm Tom, and each week, I speak to authors behind books I've loved, and I hope you will, too.
TomHOST
This week, I'm delighted to be joined by Louise Kennedy.
TomHOST
Louise is the author of the acclaimed short story collection, The End of the World is a Cul-de-sac, and the award-winning novel, Trespasses, which was adapted into a Channel 4 series last year.
TomHOST
She's here to discuss her new novel, Stations.
25 MINS LATER
Louise KennedyGUEST
And, um, and, uh, speaking in this brilliant Belfast accent, and then being clapped off the set.
Louise KennedyGUEST
It was amazing.
TomHOST
That's Louise Kennedy.
TomHOST
Her latest novel, Stations, is out now in hardback.
ReneeGUEST
I have a couple fall reads that I read early that were disappointing.
ReneeGUEST
And I will just say one of them is Stations by Louise Kennedy.
ReneeGUEST
Oh,
Brett BennerHOST
no.
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