Review of ‘Intimacies’: Lucy Caldwell handles high stakes with delicate authenticity
(Niamh Campbell, Irish Independent) Intimacies, Lucy Caldwell’s second collection of short stories, follows young women interrupted by sudden, destabilising forces At a point in Lucy Caldwell’s 2013 novel All the Beggars Riding, a character is struck by the anger of a widow: if you have to ask why wives and mothers risked their own health to nurse their dying husbands ...
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Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell review – too close for comfort
An outstanding collection of short stories about the vulnerability and enlightenment of motherhood (Carrie O'Grady, The Guardian) In Making Babies, Anne Enright referred to the months after giving birth as “life in here on the other side”. The mother crosses over; she enters a new room she can’t leave, and everything is different there. In her second collection of stories, ...
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On ‘Intimacies’ by Lucy Caldwell
How to read a short story collection (Tiny Camels / Jonathan Gibbs) So Lucy Caldwell’s Intimacies was one of my May reads, but I’ve split off into a separate blog to write about it, because I found it so interesting. I’ll say straight out that it is a great collection of stories, which much of the same calm, wry, politically ...
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BBC – Open Book
Elizabeth Day talks to Lisa McInerney and Lucy Caldwell, two young writers born in the same year from different side of the Irish border. 100 years since partition, they discuss how a literary culture once defined by exile and sectarian identities is being reconfigured in exciting new ways today. (listen at the BBC) Book List – Sunday 23 May and ...
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“Windows on Worlds”: commemorating the Belfast Blitz
"Windows on Worlds" written and read by Lucy Caldwell on the 80th anniversary of the Belfast Blitz, on RTE's Sunday Miscellany ...
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