Louise Kennedy with Sam Baker for Stations

"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 LEEWe are delighted to be welcoming Louise Kennedy to Edinburgh this September to celebrate _Stations,_ 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.The conversation will be chaired by writer, broadcaster, and author, Sam Baker.

She is the creator and host of The Shift with Sam Baker podcast and substack newsletter of the same name.

She is the author of five novels and one memoir._Roisin 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 Roisin 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 Roisin arrives in London, the promise of freedom, of reinvention, and of finding her dear friend calls.__But searching for Red leads Roisin 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._Louise Kennedy grew up a few miles from Belfast.

She is the author of the Women's Prize shortlisted novel, Trespasses, and the acclaimed short story collection, The End of the World is a Cul de Sac, and is the only woman to have been shortlisted twice for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award (2019 and 2020).

Before starting her writing career, she spent nearly thirty years working as a chef.

She lives in Sligo.