Devotions
'One of the finest short story writers at work today.' Wendy Erskine
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'Exhilarating, devastating, comforting, essential.' CLAIRE KILROY
'These are stories which sing off the page.' JAN CARSON
'Powerful, compelling and richly crafted.' MARY COSTELLO
'Profoundly intimate.' TAHMIMA ANAM
The highly-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings
'There must be moments when we let go - let go of all that we do, all that we are.'
A young Belfast theatre troupe brings its experimental production of Hamlet to New York.
On a night-flight, travelling with a violin older than the United States, a professional musician slips through time.
A man who loses all he thought he had, and finds himself haunted by all he never will, comes to a painful new understanding of what it might mean to love.
Transporting and profound, these are stories of love, grief, longing, of new beginnings, and the ways we find shelter in each other.
'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
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This introspective and wide-ranging story collection from Caldwell (These Days) is peopled with unsettled characters. In "All Grown Up," a divorced father returns to Northern Ireland to clear out his mother's house after her death, has an unexpected tryst, and tries to understand what happened to his marriage. In "The Lady of the House," a young aspiring actor, feeling unmoored, visits her sister's new home in Scotland, where she's haunted by a malevolent presence. Caldwell, also a playwright, shines in stories about performance, such as "Little Lands," a close reading of the Ländler scene in The Sound of Music; "Harmony Hill," about a musician traveling from North Carolina to Dublin with her 17th-century Peter Guarnerius violin; and the collection's standout, "Hamlet, a Love Story." That one centers on the players in an "edgy, choose-your-own-adventure-style production of Hamlet," in which the prince controls the action after Act I. The narrator is the widow of the production's original Hamlet, and the story masterfully explores the play itself, grief, and the protagonist's feeling of "drifting—carried along in other people's slipstreams." There's much to admire in these nuanced stories.
