"Beautifully crafted, and so finely balanced that she holds the reader
right up against the tender humanity of her characters." - Eimear
McBride, author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
From Belfast to London and back again the eleven stories that comprise
Caldwell's first collection explore the many facets of growing up - the
pain and the heartache, the tenderness and the joy, the fleeting and the
formative - or "the drunkenness of things being various". Stories of
longing and belonging, they culminate with the heart-wrenching and
unforgettable title story.