Intimacies av Lucy Caldwell

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<p><b>*Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award*</b><br><br>''Smart, nuanced and sometimes heart-stopping.'' <b>Anne Enright</b><br>¿Outstanding.¿ <i>Guardian</i><br>¿Eleven perfect stories.¿ <i>Irish Independent</i><br>¿Glorious.¿ <i>The Times</i><br>¿My FAVE collection ever.¿ <b>Pandora Sykes</b><br><br>In eleven stories, <i>Intimacies </i>exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother¿s brush with mortality, and 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¿.<br><br>¿Embedded in these stories are exquisite, often moving descriptions where everyday moments mix with the monumental.¿ <i>Financial Times</i></p>