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These Days

by Lucy Caldwell · 2022

Literary Fiction · ranked #260 in category

Winner · The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, 2023

Over four nights of the Belfast Blitz in April and May 1941, two sisters navigate love, ambition and survival as the city around them is destroyed by German bombing raids — a chapter of WWII history rarely covered in fiction. Caldwell's Walter Scott Prize-winning novel renders the Blitz from a specifically Northern Irish perspective, usually overshadowed by London's experience.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2022 · 2020s
Author
Lucy Caldwell
Standing
Essential Read

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