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 Lee, bestselling author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires

What a beautiful book ... Róisín's quest for the love of a man who can never reciprocate her own obsessive passion is an odyssey of its own. Stations will live in my head for a long time to come.

Liz Nugent, bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond

This is the story of a profound, ambiguous love, spanning decades, between two wounded emigrants adrift in London. Place and feeling are uncannily tangible. It's funny, perceptive, carnal, laced with startling sentences and tremendously absorbing and revealing. Any time I was away from it I missed it.

Timothy O'Grady, author of I Could Read the Sky

Stations takes hold from the first page, it's all raw and it's all true. You're pitched straight into the story, heart-first. Only later does the social history in the novel occur to you: in vivid scenes Stations reconstructs a time when work on an English building site was the expectation of thousands of young Irish men. It would've been my expectation too, probably, had I been born ten years earlier. I don't think there has ever been a better examination of Ireland's relationship to London; a place to where the Irish were often pulled by their ambition, or pushed by their regrets

Garrett Carr, author of The Boy from the Sea

A deeply moving portrait of love's many faces, Stations is at once vivid and panoramic, an elegiac and clear-eyed exploration of intimacy in all its life-saving power and devastating limitations

Colin Walsh, author of Kala

I gulped this down - convinced, fascinated, and moved by every page

Emma Donoghue, author of Room and The Wonder