Understated, everyday stories told through a quietly powerful voice
Multitudes is Lucy Caldwell’s first collection of short stories, and it’s brilliant
Fiction; Multitudes: Eleven Stories; By Lucy Caldwell; Faber & Faber, €17.25
An underhyped Irish writer? They do exist. Lucy Caldwell (born 1981) has been quietly writing away for over a decade, producing novels and plays, steadily collecting awards and rave reviews – her first full-length drama, Leaves, won the Stewart Parker Award in 2007, and she won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2011.
But she’s never quite broken through, as they ...
