
Openings
'A stunning collection.' TESSA HADLEY
Lucy Caldwell(Author)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 8. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-571-38276-7 (ISBN)
Description
'One of the finest short-storywriters at work today.' WENDY ERSKINE
'One of our best short story writers.' THE TIMES
'Each story is a masterclass.' JAN CARSON
The much-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes and Intimacies.
I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. To somewhere else, entirely new.
From a highly charged Christmas party in Belfast to a passionate affair in Blitz-era London, to a trip to Marrakech which could form a new family, the thirteen striking stories of Openings pulse with possibility and illuminate those fleeting but recognisable moments of heartbreak and hope that can change the course of a life.
'It takes a writer as subtle, compassionate and clear-eyed as Caldwell to track the hidden forces that work upon us, to illuminate our secret selves. This is prose that liberates.' CLAIRE KILROY
'Caldwell has a glorious skill for creating narratives in which every element works in perfect tandem.'
SUNDAY TIMES
'One of our best short story writers.' THE TIMES
'Each story is a masterclass.' JAN CARSON
The much-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes and Intimacies.
I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. To somewhere else, entirely new.
From a highly charged Christmas party in Belfast to a passionate affair in Blitz-era London, to a trip to Marrakech which could form a new family, the thirteen striking stories of Openings pulse with possibility and illuminate those fleeting but recognisable moments of heartbreak and hope that can change the course of a life.
'It takes a writer as subtle, compassionate and clear-eyed as Caldwell to track the hidden forces that work upon us, to illuminate our secret selves. This is prose that liberates.' CLAIRE KILROY
'Caldwell has a glorious skill for creating narratives in which every element works in perfect tandem.'
SUNDAY TIMES
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
212 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-38276-7 (9780571382767)
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Born in Belfast in 1981, Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two 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 she was recently awarded the E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the Walter Scott Prize.