{"product_id":"intimacies-paperback","title":"Intimacies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucy Caldwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Eleven perfect stories\" \u003ci\u003e(Irish Independent) \u003c\/i\u003ethat chart the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world, including the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Precise and beautifully controlled fictions but with strange, wild energies pulsing along just beneath the surface. A tremendous collection.\"\u003ci\u003e --\u003c\/i\u003eKevin Barry, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Heart in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFrom a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother's brush with mortality; from a Christmas Eve walking the city centre streets when everything seems possible, to a night flight from Canada which could change a life irrevocably, these are stories of love, loss and exile, of new beginnings and lives lived away from \"home\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking in, too, the lives of other women who could be guiding lights - from Monica Lewinsky to Caroline Norton to Sinéad O'Connor - \u003ci\u003eIntimacies \u003c\/i\u003eoffers keenly felt and subtly revealing insights into the heartbreak and hope of young motherhood and modern life.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Belfast in 1981, \u003cb\u003eLucy Caldwell \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eBeing Various: New Irish Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.7 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48439090479353,"sku":"9780571353750","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/3yWwiSOB1E9780571353750.webp?v=1779620103","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/intimacies-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}