These Days

Adroit, precise storytelling, atmospheric and satisfying; These Days is a novel of real substance.

Caldwell's luminous novel presents a city under siege and a family in anguish. Her sense of life during wartime and her psychological portraiture cannot be faulted; the cumulative force of personal and public crisis will not be forgotten. This is storytelling of a vertiginously high order.

A captivating novel exploring a lesser known chapter of Northern Ireland’s story. Caldwell has managed to capture the spirit and tenacity of the Belfast I know and love. This is a novel which looks suffering straight in the eye and yet will leave you full of hope.

Beautiful, lyrical, and deeply moving, These Days is a wonderful novel.

These Days is a deeply moving story of family, loss, sisterhood and how you can find yourself, even in the darkest of times. A truly gorgeous piece of storytelling, I could see and feel every word. Another absolute triumph for Lucy Caldwell.'

A novel of enormous heart; full of luminous passages of prose, this tale of the Belfast blitz is breathtakingly good.