Lucy Caldwell

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Review of ‘Intimacies’: Lucy Caldwell handles high stakes with delicate authenticity

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

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

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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RTE 1: Arena

RTE 1: Arena
Lucy discusses her new collection Intimacies  on RTE Radio 1's "Arena" ...
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