Devotions

In Devotions, 'one of the finest short story writers at work today' (Wendy Erskine) explores yearning for distant pasts and unknowable futures.

'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.'

From a highly charged New York production of Hamlet to a complicated family Christmas, and from a professional musician slipping through time on a night flight to an unexpected school reunion, these are revelatory stories of grief, love and longing.

'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