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'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, all that we are.' A young Belfast theatre troupe brings its experimental production of Hamlet to New York. On a night-flight, travelling with a violin older than the United States, a professional musician slips through time. A man who loses all he thought he had, and finds himself haunted by all he never will, comes to a painful new understanding of what it might mean to love. Transporting and profound, these are stories of love, grief, longing, of new beginnings, and the ways we find shelter in each other. 'One of our best short story writers.' THE TIMES '[Caldwell] holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters.' EIMEAR McBRIDE 'A next-level author of short stories.' THE HERALD

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""It takes a writer as subtle, compassionate and clear-eyed as Caldwell to track the hidden forces that work upon us, to illuminate our secret selves."" Claire Kilroy ""A mature and rare and rich writer."" Tessa Hadley ""[Caldwell] holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters."" Eimear McBride ""Like her countrymen William Trevor, John McGahern and Colm Toibin, she excels at vocalising the unsaid."" Times Literary Supplement ""One of our best short story writers."" The Times (UK) PRAISE FOR THESE DAYS, one of NPR's Best Books of 2025""Adroit, precise storytelling, atmospheric and satisfying; These Days is a novel of real substance."" Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall ""Intertwined with vivid descriptions of the horrific collateral damage in the city itself are intersecting narratives that remind us how persistently the dramas of daily life can exist even when the world is in flames."" Alida Becker, The New York Times ""Lucy Caldwell so beautifully balances a book that feels intimate and deeply personal, as if you're reading someone's diary, with the greater historical resonance of this very real chapter of World War II."" Shannon Rhoades, NPR

""A mature and rare and rich writer."" - Tessa Hadley ""A consummate master of the craft."" - RTE ""One of the finest short-storywriters at work today."" - Wendy Erskine ""It takes a writer as subtle, compassionate and clear-eyed as Caldwell to track the hidden forces that work upon us, to illuminate our secret selves."" - Claire Kilroy ""Like her countrymen William Trevor, John McGahern and Colm Toibin, she excels at vocalising the unsaid."" - Times Literary Supplement

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Born in Belfast in 1981, Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and three previous collections of short stories. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, she was also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories in 2019, and has won the E. M. Forster Award, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Walter Scott Prize among others.

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