Stations, by Louise Kennedy - Signed Hardback

This is a signed hardback of best-selling novelist Louise Kennedy's stunning new work: Stations. 

1980s Ireland. Red and Róisín. Love. Friendship. Addiction. Heartbreak. 

Outsider Róisín meets charismatic bad boy Red and thus begins a lifelong friendship. A coming of age story and a poignant exploration of the Irish diaspora, Stations is a must-read. (But make sure you have a box of tissues nearby...) 

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.

A BOOK OF THE AUTUMN IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER, COUNTRY & TOWNHOUSE AND MORE

'A transcendent exploration of yearning, transformation and rescue' MIN JIN LEE
'Blisteringly good' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE DAY
'A masterwork ... Brutal and perfect' IRISH TIMES
'It's been a while since I felt this attached' JODIE COMER
'A triumph' SARAH MOSS, OBSERVER