The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy

A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a ghost estate, with blood on her hands; a young woman is tormented by visions of the man murdered by her brother during the Troubles; a pregnant mother fears the worst as her husband grows illegal cannabis with the help of a vulnerable teenage girl; a woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage.

This dazzling debut collection by Louise Kennedy announces a major new voice in literary fiction for the twenty-first century. These sharp shocks of stories offer flashes of beauty, and even humour, amid the harshest of truths.