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These Days by Lucy Caldwell: 1. The Blitz Begins

These Days by Lucy Caldwell

1. The Blitz Begins

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April 1941: the Blitz is just beginning in Belfast. The lives of two sisters under wartime duress. Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg.

Two sisters, four nights, one city.

April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.

Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.

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 four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz.

Lucy Caldwell's timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.

Abridged in ten parts by Rowan Routh.

Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg

Producer: Gemma McMullan

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2022.

****  Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two collections of short stories: Multitudes and Intimacies. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad.’

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Lucy Caldwell's story of two sisters set against the backdrop of the 1941 Belfast Blitz.

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