Lucy Caldwell

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.) When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic, where he met their mother years before, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father lost his temper and left early. Because home, for their father, wasn't Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life...Narrated by Lara, nearing forty and nursing her dying mother, "All the Beggars Riding" is the heartbreaking portrait of a woman confronting her past.

When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic, where he met their mother years before, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father lost his temper and left early. Because home, for their father, wasn't Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life...Narrated by Lara, nearing forty and nursing her dying mother, All the Beggars Riding is the heartbreaking portrait of a woman confronting her past just as she realises that time is running out.

Una visió aguda i reveladora del desamor.Intimitats traça de manera immillorable les passes i ensopegades de dones joves que lluiten per trobar el seu lloc en el món. Des de l'estudiant de Belfast que aconsegueix drogues il·legals per internet per posar fi a un embaras no desitjat, a una mare jove que lluita amb la mortalitat. Des de la nit de Nadal caminant pels carrers del centre de la ciutat, quan tot sembla possible, a un vol nocturn des del Canada que podria canviar-ho tot de manera irrevocable.Histories d'amor, de perdua i exili, de Nous començaments i vides viscudes lluny de la llar.Reconegut amb el BBC National Short Story Award per un dels seus relats.Aquestes histories son un fidel reflex dels problemas als quals han de fer front les dones avui. The GuardianLucy Caldwell s'acosta amb una gran sensibilitat als personatges de la seva obra. Coneix els racons mes ocults del seu cor i ens explica les seves histories d'una manera veraç i tendra. The IndependentUn llibre memorable i de lectura obligada d'una de les escriptores mes importants d'Irlanda. The Sunday TimesExquisit. The BooksellerUna veritable obra d'art que ens demostra com tots, malgrat ser molt diferents, patim els mateixos problemes en aquest transit cap a la vida adulta. The Scotsman

Sensationally good' Sunday Times'Remarkably, unusually vivid' The TimesA Guardian and Observer Fiction Highlight for '22, from the Winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story AwardTwo sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey - one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman - as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz, These Days is a timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.

Onze relats que conformen una inspiradora història de creixement de la mà d'una de les veus més interessants de la literatura irlandesa actual.Els onze relats que conformen Matant el temps, cadascun

Once relatos que conforman una inspiradora historia de crecimiento de la mano de una de las voces más interesantes de la literatura irlandesa actual. Los once relatos que conforman Matando el tiempo , cada uno de ellos en forma de inspiradisima historia

Once relatos que conforman una inspiradora historia de crecimiento de la mano de una de las voces más interesantes de la literatura irlandesa actual.Los once relatos que conforman Matando el tiempo, cada uno de ellos en forma de inspiradisima historia de crecimiento, llevan al lector de Belfast a Londres en un viaje de ida y vuelta, mientras exploran que significa hacerse mayor: el dolor y la angustia, la ternura y la alegria, la fugacidad de los primeros momentos destinados a no volver. Son historias sobre primeros amores, el incipiente deseo sexual y seduccion, pero tambien sobre la amistad, la familia y la certeza de haber dejado atras el niño que una vez fuimos.Lucy Caldwell se adentra en el candor de los mas pequeños, en el dolor de la adolescencia y el temor de los padres.Estas historias son una imagen fiel de los problemas a los que se deben enfrentar las mujeres de hoy. The GuardianLucy Caldwell se acerca con una gran sensibilidad a los personajes de su obra. Conoce los rincones mas ocultos de su corazon y nos cuenta sus historias de manera veraz y tierna. The IndependentMatando el tiempoes un libro que posee una gran vitalidad, inmensamente humano y sincero. The Irish TimesUna verdadera obra de arte que nos demuestra como todos, pese a lo diferente que podamos ser, sufrimos los mismos problemas ante ese transito hacia la vida adulta. The Scotsman

One of the finest short-storywriters at work today. These stories are honest, finely nuanced and indelible in their impact. WENDY ERSKINEOne of our best short story writers.THE TIMESYoull lose yourself in this collection and, most likely, find yourself too. Each story is a masterclass in attentiveness. JAN CARSONThe much-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes and Intimacies.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.From a passionate affair in Blitz-era London, to a highly charged Christmas party in Belfast, to a trip to Marrakech which could form a new family, the thirteen striking stories of Openings pulse with possibility and illuminate those fleeting but recognisable moments of heartbreak and hope that can change the course of a life. 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. This is prose that liberates. CLAIRE KILROYCaldwell has a glorious skill for creating narratives in which every element works in perfect tandem.SUNDAY TIMES

WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONWINNER OF THE E. M. FORSTER AWARDAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK AT BEDTIMETwo 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 - one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman - as they try to survive the horrors of the Belfast Blitz, These Days is an unforgettable novel about lives lived under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselvesBrilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak.GuardianBreathtakingly good. A novel of enormous heart; full of luminous passages of prose.ObserverMeticulously researched, perfectly imagined, full of compassion and emotional truth. CLARE CHAMBERS

Judys my mom. Its an understatement to say shes a bit of a hippy. I mean who else but a New Ager calls their baby Philosophy Rainbow? I try to go by Sophie.Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves.When Sophie gets ill, they return to Birmingham - a strange new world where meditation and tree-hugging are replaced with maths homework and TV and the grandmother they have never met. And its against this bewildering new backdrop - the normality shes always longed for - that Sophie must come to terms with her mortality.Lucy Caldwells Notes to Future Self opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in February 2011.

When Euan and Ruth set off with their young daughter to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an experience and adventure they will cherish. But on the night they arrive, Ruth discovers the truth behind the missionary work Euan has planned and feels her world start to crumble. Far from home, and with events spiralling towards war in nearby Iraq, she starts to question her faith - in Euan, in their marriage and in all she has held dear.With Euan so often away, she is confined to their guarded compound with her neighbours and, in particular, Noor, a troubled teenager recently returned to Bahrain to live with her father. Confronted by temptations and doubt, each must make choices that could change all of their lives for ever.Compelling, passionate and deeply resonant, The Meeting Point is a novel about idealism and innocence, about the unexpected turns life can take and the dangers and chances that await us.

When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic, where he met their mother years before, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father lost his temper and left early.Because home, for their father, wasnt Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life...Narrated by Lara, nearing forty and nursing her dying mother, All the Beggars Riding is the heartbreaking portrait of a woman confronting her past just as she realises that time is running out

We are where we come from? Thats not true. Thats not true because if thats true theres no hope for any of us.Lori is coming home from her first term at university. Its only been a few weeks and already things have gone badly wrong. But none of the rest of the family knows, or understands, what really happened.In this fiercely observed family drama, three teenage girls struggle to define who they are, and why, and where they might be going.Leaves won the George Devine Award 2006, the premier award for new writing by an emerging playwright in the UK and Ireland. The play opened at the Druid Theatre, Galway in March 2007 before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, London.

A lively, humane book, gritty but wholehearted. Colin Barrett, Irish TimesOne of the finest short-story writers at work today.Wendy ErskineExhilarating.Sunday TimesBrilliant.Sunday Business PostFrom Belfast to London and back again, the eleven stories in Lucy Caldwells acclaimed first collection chronicle the heartache, joy, and tenderness of growing up.With lives caught in the suspense of transition - between city and country### between the in crowd and the out; between home and escape; between love and loneliness - Multitudes culminates with the heart-wrenching and unforgettable title story, as a young woman goes through her first labour and the traumatic days that follow.Deeply affecting, intimate and yet resonant, these are stories that squeeze right into the fractures that end up shaping the course of lives.

*Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award*Outstanding.GuardianEleven perfect stories.Irish IndependentGlorious.The TimesMy FAVE collection ever.Pandora SykesIn 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 mothers 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

Exhilarating, devastating, comforting, essential CLAIRE KILROYThese are stories which sing off the page JAN CARSONPowerful, compelling and richly crafted MARY COSTELLOProfoundly intimate TAHMIMA ANAM The highly-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes, Intimacies and OpeningsThere 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 writersTHE TIMES[Caldwell] holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters EIMEAR McBRIDEA next-level author of short storiesTHE HERALD

Una visión aguda y reveladora del desamor.Intimidades traza de manera inmejorable los pasos y traspiés de mujeres jóvenes que luchan por encontrar su lugar en el mundo. Desde una estudiante de Belfast que se hace con drogas ilegales por internet para poner fin a un embarazo no deseado, a una madre joven, que lidia con la mortalidad. Desde una Nochebuena caminando por las calles del centro de la ciudad, cuando todo parece posible, a un vuelo nocturno desde Canada que podria cambiarlo todo de manera irrevocable. Historias de amor, perdida y exilio, de nuevos comienzos y vidas vividas lejos del hogar.Estas historias son un fiel reflejo de los problemas a los que deben enfrentarse las mujeres de hoy. The GuardianLucy Caldwell se acerca con una gran sensibilidad a los personajes de su obra. Conoce los rincones mas ocultos de su corazon y nos cuenta sus historias de manera veraz y tierna. The IndependentUn libro memorable y de lectura obligada de una de las escritoras mas importantes de Irlanda. The Sunday TimesNos descubre el sinfin de caminos ocultos que corren bajo el dia a dia de nuestras vidas. Irish IndependentExquisito. The BooksellerUna verdadera obra de arte que nos demuestra como todos, pese a lo diferente que podamos ser, sufrimos los mismos problemas ante ese transito hacia la vida adulta. The Scotsman

Una visión aguda y reveladora del desamor.Intimidades traza de manera inmejorable los pasos y traspies de mujeres jóvenes que luchan por encontrar su lugar en el mundo. Desde una estudiante de Belfast que se hace con drogas ilegales por internet para poner fin a un embarazo no deseado, a una madre joven, que lidia con la mortalidad. Desde una Nochebuena caminando por las calles del centro de la ciudad, cuando todo parece posible, a un vuelo nocturno desde Canada que podria cambiarlo todo de manera irrevocable. Historias de amor, perdida y exilio, de nuevos comienzos y vidas vividas lejos del hogar."Estas historias son un fiel reflejo de los problemas a los que deben enfrentarse las mujeres de hoy." The Guardian"Lucy Caldwell se acerca con una gran sensibilidad a los personajes de su obra. Conoce los rincones mas ocultos de su corazon y nos cuenta sus historias de manera veraz y tierna." The Independent"Un libro memorable y de lectura obligada de una de las escritoras mas importantes de Irlanda." The Sunday Times"Nos descubre el sinfin de caminos ocultos que corren bajo el dia a dia de nuestras vidas." Irish Independent"Exquisito." The Bookseller"Una verdader

La novela del bombardeo nazi sobre la ciudad de Belfast. En abril de 1941 Belfast había evitado lo peor de la guerra. Las iglesias volvían a estar abiertas, las familias comían juntas otra vez y los jovenes acudian a los salones de baile los fines de semana. Nada hacia presagiar que, en muy poco tiempo, la aviacion alemana iba a oscurecer los cielos de la ciudad con un unico objetivo: destruir la ciudad. Muchos iban a morir, y los que no lo hicieran no volverian a ser los mismos. De la mano de dos hermanas, Emma y Audrey ?prometida la primera y en una relacion secreta con otra mujer la segunda?, el lector sera testigo de los momentos mas duros del bombardeo. Con ellas vivira y hara frente a la adversidad de una ciudad perdida, pero en la que, pese a todo, siempre latio la esperanza. Caldwell nos obliga una y otra vez a repensar aquello que pensabamos que ya sabiamos. [Elif Shafak] Una novela imprescindible. [Hilary Mantel]