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Reviews round-up

Stations

by Louise Kennedy

Bloomsbury Publishing2026ISBN 9781526664303

7 of 7 critics positive

7 reviews: 4 raves, 3 positives

What the critics said

Rave
“one of the year's best books”

Reviewed: Louise Kennedy's Stations is one of the year's best books

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Rave
“a superb follow-up to Trespasses”

Stations by Louise Kennedy review – a superb follow-up to Trespasses

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Rave
“A masterwork from the heir to Edna O’Brien’s agile indignation”

Stations by Louise Kennedy: A masterwork from the heir to Edna O’Brien’s agile indignation

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Rave
“a triumph of realist fiction”

Louise Kennedy’s Stations is a triumph of realist fiction

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Positive
“captures with fino dry wit the path of would-be lovers”

Stations by Louise Kennedy — love, friendship and the complexities of youth

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Positive
“a fearless, cliché-free story on the hormonal chaos of awkward young love”

Louise Kennedy delivers a fearless, cliché-free story on the hormonal chaos of awkward young love

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Positive
“There is real emotional power in Louise Kennedy’s new novel, Stations”

Down but not out in 1980s London: the adventures of Irish exiles

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