' Beautifully crafted & so finely balanced that she holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters' Eimear Mc Bride'A writer of rare elegance & beauty Caldwell doesn't just get inside her characters' minds She perches in the precarious chambers of their hearts telling their stories truthfully & tenderly' Independent Multitudes is the beautiful debut story collection from the acclaimed prize-winning novelist & playwright Lucy Caldwell From Belfast to London & back again the ten stories that comprise Caldwell's first collection explore the many facets of growing up
- the pain & the heartache the tenderness & the joy the fleeting & the formative
- or 'the drunkenness of things being various' Stories of longing & belonging they culminate with the heart-wrenching & unforgettable title story