About this Event
Join acclaimed, prize-winning author Lucy Caldwell, as she talks about her highly-anticipated new collection of short stories, Openings: Thirteen Stories - a striking exploration of the contemporary female experience, love and longing, motherhood and marriage. From a passionate affair in Blitz-era London, to a highly charged Christmas party in Belfast, to a trip to Marrakech which could form a new family, the thirteen 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.
She will be in conversation with events coordinator Amy Crawford.
Lucy Caldwell has been celebrated as one of today’s pre-eminent short story writers. She is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two previous collections of short stories: Multitudes and Intimacies. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad'. Other awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize – for her novel The Meeting Point – and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She is the winner of the 2022 E. M. Forster Award. Lucy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018 and in 2019 she was the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones Cambridge, 22 Sidney Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom
GBP 5.00 to GBP 18.00
