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Intimacies
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- Book Synopsis
- *Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award* 'A tremendous collection.' KEVIN BARRY 'Smart, nuanced and sometimes heart-stopping.' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Outstanding.' GUARDIAN 'Eleven perfect stories.' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Glorious.' TIMES 'My FAVE collection ever.' PANDORA SYKES "Eleven perfect stories" (Irish Independent) that chart the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world, including the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award. 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 a life irrevocably, these are stories of love, loss and exile, of new beginnings and lives lived away from "home". Taking in, too, the lives of other women who could be guiding lights-from Monica Lewinsky to Caroline Norton to Sinéad O'Connor - Intimacies offers keenly felt and subtly revealing insights into the heartbreak and hope of modern life.
- About The Author
- Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981 and is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and three previous collections of short stories: Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, she was the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories in 2019. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for 'All the People Were Mean and Bad'. Other awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the 2022 E. M. Forster Award.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571353750
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (02 December 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Weight
- 151 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 10 mm
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