Trinity

Love is a high-wire act.

Fran and Fintan meet as freshers. Divided by class and religion, they struggle to make sense of the exquisite physical passion that pulses between them. It’s the start of the new millennium, the world is changing, surely they can overcome social barriers — but then there's Saskia, the brilliant academic in midlife who has also fallen for Fran. How can Fintan possibly compete with her? As the first year of the new millennium comes to its turbulent close, all three lovers must decide where their loyalties lie.

TRINITY is a death-defying novel of love, faith and spectacle set in a world where ideas and opinions get you airborne but emotions bring you crashing down -- the university. Lovers of Sally Rooney's Normal People and Julia May Jonas' Vladimir or of Emily Adrian's Seduction Theory and Niamh Ní Mhaoilcoin's Ordinary Saints are going to be craning their necks.   

Female ageing and desire, the slipperiness of sex, self-abnegation and self-exaggeration, the sanctity and emptiness of marriage, believing in being star-cross'd, believing in being saved: it's all here in a literary romance for all-comers. It's brainy. It's sexy. And there are nuns. 

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'This is no standard campus novel, it re-creates the experience of being a student before the internet, when there was time for conversation about big questions. It combines a contemporary voice with a nostalgic tone, tackles everything from love to terrorism, faith and the importance of literature.'

Naomi Wood, author of Mrs Hemingway

"Bonnie has a contemporary voice that is both passionate and compassionate – one that gives articulate and lyrical expression to a multiplicity of interests: childhood, literacy, botany, love, faith... her novel is a natural expansion of that voice, and an exciting development." 

Ross Raisin, author of A Hunger

"Bonnie’s debut novel is full of wit, humour and heart. It made me feel like I was an undergraduate again, falling in love with ideas, with people, with the world around me. There are tones of Graham Greene but the novel’s fresh take on sex and god is distinctly millennial."

Jenn Ashworth, author of The Parallel Path

'Bonnie Lander Johnson's literary voice is that of someone who has examined the world with both care and amusement’ 

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of The Sleep Watcher