'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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Lucy Caldwell makes other writers jealous; no one makes the short story look so effortless. These are stories which sing off the page, full to bursting with the small joys and sorrows of everyday life. Lucy Caldwell knows how to take a tiny moment and spin it into an epic. She never ever disappoints.
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In Devotions, 'one of the finest short story writers at work today' (Wendy Erskine) explores yearning for distant pasts and unknowable futures.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780571398256
Publisert
2026-04-23
Utgiver
Faber & Faber
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

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.