Lucy Caldwell

From Belfast to London and back again the eleven stories that comprise Caldwell's first collection explore the many facets of growing up - the pain and the heartache, the tenderness and the joy, the fleeting and the formative - or 'the drunkenness of things being various'. Stories of longing and belonging, they culminate with the heart-wrenching and unforgettable title story.

A Sunday Times, Times, Irish Independent, Spectator and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year 'Sensationally good' - Sunday Times 'Remarkably, unusually vivid' - The Times 'Brilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak.' - Guardian Two sisters. Four nights. One City. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey...

'Exhilarating, devastating, comforting, essential.' CLAIRE KILROY 'These are stories which sing off the page.' JAN CARSON 'Powerful, compelling and richly crafted.' MARY COSTELLO 'Profoundly intimate.' TAHMIMA ANAM The highly-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings 'There must be moments when we let go - let go of all that we do,...

Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother's brush with mortality; from a Christmas Eve walking the city centre streets when everything seems possible, to a night flight from Canada which could change...

'One of the finest short-story writers at work today. These stories are honest, finely nuanced and indelible in their impact.'WENDY ERSKINE 'One of our best short story writers.'THE TIMES 'You'll lose yourself in this collection and, most likely, find yourself too. Each story is a masterclass in attentiveness.'JAN CARSON The much-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning...

Winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award. Winner of the 2022 E. M. Forster Award. Openings: "I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. To somewhere else, entirely new." Since the publication of Multitudes, her debut collection, Lucy Caldwell has been celebrated as one...