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Trespasses - Wednesdays/Thursdays from 11th/12th March

Trespasses - Wednesdays/Thursdays from 11th/12th March

€140,95
€140,95
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Read and discuss this beautiful love story set in the Troubles in Northern Ireland

Highlights

  • Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
  • 6 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
  • Discuss relationships across a political divide, in this novel set in 1975       
  • Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 6 week English book club course using Trespasses by Louise Kennedy.  Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel.  Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy is a tender and shocking novel of love across a political divide in Northern Ireland in 1975.  When Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family she doesn't realise that it will change their lives forever.  As the tension and violence in the community rises, what hope is there for love between a Catholic and a Protestant? 

'Like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller' RUSSELL KANE
'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES
'A beautiful, devastating novel' NICK HORNBY

* WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR: DEBUT FICTION *
* WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 *
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 *


 Geoff says:

"This was recommended to me by a friend who loved it - gripping, emotional and tender, with a strong sense of place and time ."


The book
  • Genre: Thriller; political thriller; romance
  • Language: British English; Modern
  • Suitable for: people new to reading in English - Upper Intermediate
  • Text: Original 
  • Length: Average weekly read:  62 pages
Dates & time
  • Wednesdays from 11th March to 15th April  
  • 18.30 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU)
  • 17.30 (UTC+0/GMT+0) London, UK, Portugal
  • 19.30 Greece, Ukraine
  • 20.30 Turkey*, Saudi Arabia*
  • 13.30 EDT Boston/New York**

*After 29/03 times are 1 hour earlier due to UK daylight saving 

**After 29/03 times are 1 hour EST later due to UK daylight saving 

or 

  • Thursdays from 12th March to 16th April  
  • 17.30 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU)
  • 16.30 (UTC+0/GMT+0) London, UK, Portugal
  • 18.30 Greece, Ukraine
  • 19.30 Turkey*, Saudi Arabia*
  • 12.30 EDT Boston/New York**

*After 29/03 times are 1 hour earlier due to UK daylight saving 

**After 29/03 times are 1 hour EST later due to UK daylight saving 
Age 18+
Online class size Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion
What you learn
  • To express your ideas clearly, concisely & accurately
  • To improve specific areas of grammar and vocabulary
  • To stop making repeated errors and mistakes  
  • To summarise arguments, highlighting significant points
  • To develop discussions with related comments & feedback
  • To overcome any gaps by paraphrasing or rephrasing
  • To socialise fluently and spontaneously 
Your teacher
  • Geoff Hardy-Gould, BSc, MBA, CTEFLA, DTEFLA. 
  • Over 20 years' experience of UK language schools. 
  • Speaker at:  2026 IATEFL Conference; 2025 Literature SIG Conference; 2024 IATEFL Conference; 2023 IATEFL TechLit! Exploring crossovers between technology and literature; 2022 Extensive Reading Foundation; 2021 TESOL Italia

Only 8 places available.  Click Add to Cart above to reserve your place.