Description
*Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award*
'Smart, nuanced and sometimes heart-stopping.' Anne Enright
'Outstanding.' Guardian
'Eleven perfect stories.' Irish Independent
'Glorious.' The Times
'My FAVE collection ever.' Pandora Sykes
In eleven stories, 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, and 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'.
'Embedded in these stories are exquisite, often moving descriptions where everyday moments mix with the monumental.' Financial Times
'Precise and beautifully controlled fictions but with strange, wild energies pulsing along just beneath the surface. A tremendous collection.' Kevin Barry
About the Author
Lucy Caldwell is the author of three novels, one short story collection, Multitudes, and several stage plays & radio dramas. Her awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, a Fiction Uncovered Award and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2019, she edited Being Various, the latest volume in the ongoing Faber series of New Irish Short Stories.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571353750
Author Lucy Caldwell
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 151g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 10mm
