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A Sunday Times, Times, Irish Independent, Spectator and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year
WINNER OF THE THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
'Sensationally good' Sunday Times
'Remarkably, unusually vivid' The Times
'Brilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak.' Guardian
Two 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 ourselves
'Breathtakingly good . A novel of enormous heart; full of luminous passages of prose.' Observer
'Meticulously researched, perfectly imagined, full of compassion and emotional truth.' CLARE CHAMBERS

Portrait

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.