Novelist and playwright Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast ... Is that bond enough to make it all worth it? Intimacies are fleeting, barely there, barely satisfying. In “Intimacies”, the narrator ...

In Words for Things, one of 11 neatly crafted short stories comprising Lucy Caldwell’s Intimacies, two mothers reminisce about a party they attended when they were young. One of them points out ...

Unsettled women trying to understand themselves permeate Lucy Caldwell’s work ... the complexities of adolescence. In Intimacies, her latest collection, Caldwell brings us another 11 stories ...

Short stories Intimacies Lucy Caldwell Faber & Faber, 176 pages, hardcover, €14.99; e-book £5.57 Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell It’s tempting to make large claims about this slender volume ...

So it is with Lucy Caldwell’s short stories ... was a sharp-witted survival guide to female adolescence, and Intimacies (2021) shone brilliantly from the coalface of early motherhood, Openings ...

(‘The Lovers’) Born in Belfast, Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas and the short story collections: Multitudes and Intimaci ...

My second collection, Intimacies, was motherhood. And when it came to writing the stories in Openings, I found I had greater technical abilities. I had greater range. There’s one story set in ...

Born in Belfast, Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas and two collections of short stories: Multitudes (Faber, 2016) and Intimacies (Faber ...