Openings: 'So varied, so subtle, so tonally poised - a stunning collection.' TESSA HADLEY

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Winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award Winner of the 2022 E. M. Forster Award'I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. To somewhere else, entirely new.'Since the publication of Multitudes, her debut collection, Lucy Caldwell has been celebrated as one of today's pre-eminent short story writers. In this much-anticipated third collection, she continues her exploration of the contemporary female experience, as she delves deeper into motherhood and marriage, love and longing.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 striking 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.

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Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981. 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.