Name: Maine Irish Reads ‘These Days’ by Lucy Caldwell
Start: 2026-02-12T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04102

$Maine Irish Reads \u2018These Days\u2019 by Lucy Caldwell$

Maine Irish Reads, our monthly book club, meets every second Thursday here at the Center!
From 7:30 – 9 PM in the MIHC Library. Bring a friend. The more, the merrier.
About this month’s book:
Two sisters, four nights, one city.
April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.
Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.
Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz, These Days is a timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.
These Days won both the 2023 Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction and the 2022 E. M. Forster Award