Devotions
'One of the finest short story writers at work today.' Wendy Erskine
Published on 23. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-571-39825-6 (ISBN)
Description
'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
'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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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-39825-6 (9780571398256)
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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.