Multitudes

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'A lively, humane book, gritty but wholehearted.' Colin Barrett, Irish Times 'One of the finest short-story writers at work today.' Wendy Erskine 'Exhilarating.' Sunday Times 'Brilliant.' Sunday Business Post From Belfast to London and back again, the eleven stories in Lucy Caldwell's acclaimed first collection chronicle the heartache, joy, and tenderness of growing up. With lives caught in the suspense of transition - between city and country### between the in crowd and the out; between home and escape; between love and loneliness - Multitudes culminates with the heart-wrenching and unforgettable title story, as a young woman goes through her first labour and the traumatic days that follow. Deeply affecting, intimate and yet resonant, these are stories that squeeze right into the fractures that end up shaping the course of lives.

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Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981. She is the author of three novels and several stage plays ### radio dramas. Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, the BBC Stewart Parker Award, a Fiction Uncovered Award and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Her most recent novel, All the Beggars Riding, was chosen for Belfast's One City One Book campaign in 2013 and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.

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