Where They Were Missed is a heartbreaking story of domestic tragedy and the loneliness of suffering. In a world where everyday violence taps on the surface of people's lives, Lucy Caldwell evokes the pain of an incomprehensible loss, as she charts a young girl's search for forgiveness.

Where They Were Missed

Literature & Fiction

LUCY CALDWELL

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

When Euan and Ruth set off with their young daughter to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an experience and adventure they will cherish. But on the night they arrive, Ruth discovers the truth behind the missionary work Euan has planned and feels her world start to crumble. Far from home, and with events spiralling towards war in nearby Iraq, she starts to question her faith - in Euan, in their marriage and in all she has held dear. With Euan so often away, she is confined to their guarded compound with her neighbours and, in particular, Noor, a troubled teenager recently returned to Bahrain to live with her father. Confronted by temptations and doubt, each must make choices that could change all of their lives for ever. Compelling, passionate and deeply resonant, "The Meeting Point" is a novel about idealism and innocence, about the unexpected turns life can take and the dangers and chances that await us.

The Meeting Point

Faber&Faber

All the Beggars Riding

When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic, where he met their mother years before, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father lost his temper and left early. Because home, for their father, wasn't Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life... Narrated by Lara, nearing forty and nursing her dying mother, All the Beggars Riding is the heartbreaking portrait of a woman confronting her past just as she realises that time is running out

Literary

Faber & Faber Fiction

Judy's my mom. It's an understatement to say she's a bit of a hippy. I mean who else but a New Ager calls their baby 'Philosophy Rainbow'? I try to go by 'Sophie'. Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves. When Sophie gets ill, they return to Birmingham - a strange new world where meditation and tree-hugging are replaced with maths homework and TV and the grandmother they have never met. And it's against this bewildering new backdrop - the normality she's always longed for - that Sophie must come to terms with her mortality. Lucy Caldwell's "Notes to Future Self" opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in February 2011.

Notes to Future Self

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Nike Elite Wing Shorts

These Days

These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES

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A Sunday Times, Times, Irish Independent, Spectator and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year 
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION\n'Sensationally good' Sunday Times 
'Remarkably, unusually vivid' The Times 
'Brilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak.' Guardian\nTwo sisters. Four nights. One City.\nApril, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey - one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman - as they try to survive the horrors of the Belfast Blitz, These Days is an unforgettable novel about lives lived under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves\n'Breathtakingly good . A novel of enormous heart; full of luminous passages of prose.' Observer 
'Meticulously researched, perfectly imagined, full of compassion and emotional truth.' CLARE CHAMBERS

Genre Fiction

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original black lettered yellow cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 276 (no inscriptions).

Openings: 'A stunning collection.' TESSA HADLEY

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Where They Were Missed

The Meeting Point

All the Beggars Riding

Notes to Future Self

Nike Elite Wing Shorts

These Days

These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES

These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES

Openings: 'A stunning collection.' TESSA HADLEY

Where They Were Missed