These Days
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction | 2023 | Winner |
| Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction | 2022 | Shortlist |
| Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction | 2021 | Shortlist |
| Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction | 2020 | Shortlist |
| Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction | 2017 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Lucy Caldwell's novel is set during the Belfast Blitz of April and May 1941 and follows two sisters — Emma and Audrey Dodd — and their middle-class unionist family as the city burns. Interweaving intimate domestic life with the terror of the bombings and the social transformations forced by war, the novel recovers a forgotten chapter of Belfast's civilian history. It won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2023.
About the Author
Lucy Caldwell is a Northern Irish novelist and playwright born in Belfast in 1981. She was educated at Cambridge and has written widely across prose fiction and drama. Her early novels include Where They Were Missed (2006) and The Meeting Point (2011), followed by Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Stranger (2016), a collection of stories, and Intimacies (2021), a further collection. Read more →
