These Days (Hardback)

This fine novel by one of Northern Ireland’s most accomplished contemporary writers ... brilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak.

So well drawn … brilliantly described … a remarkably, unusually vivid piece of storytelling.

A highly accomplished novel that will surely become the defining work of fiction about the Belfast Blitz... sensationally good ... It's the kind of writing you want to inhale and feel coursing through your bloodstream.

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

Meticulously researched, perfectly imagined, full of compassion and emotional truth.

Elegant and precise, I loved it. The vivid interiority Caldwell brings to the characters, particularly the three main women, is so impressive. I cared passionately about all of them. These Days is a gem of a novel.