Devotions - by Lucy Caldwell (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From the acclaimed, prize-winning author of Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings - eight vital stories of memory and connection.

"There must be moments when we let go - let go of all that we do, all that we are."

In her new collection, Lucy Caldwell explores yearning for distant pasts and unknown futures.

A woman recalls the time her grandfather claimed to have met Jesus.

A professional musician travels across the world and through her memories with a violin older than the USA.

A young Belfast theatre troupe brings their experimental production of Hamlet to New York.

Transporting and profound, these are stories of love, grief, and the ways that lives can be haunted.

"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

Review Quotes

"A mature and rare and rich writer." - Tessa Hadley

"A consummate master of the craft." - RTE

"One of the finest short-storywriters at work today." - Wendy Erskine

"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." - Claire Kilroy

"Like her countrymen William Trevor, John McGahern and Colm Toibin, she excels at vocalising the unsaid." - Times Literary Supplement