Faith and politics collide in Louise Kennedy's tender and shocking love story set during the Troubles.

Cushla Lavery is a teacher at a Catholic primary school by day and helps out at the family bar by night. When barrister Michael Agnew, older, married and Protestant, walks into the pub on a quiet February night, their lives will be changed forever. This is no ordinary love story. In a country divided by the Troubles, tensions are rising and simple acts of kindness have deep consequences for Cushla and her family.

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Writer: Louise Kennedy
Reader: Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett Show less