A01=Lucy Caldwell
Author_Lucy Caldwell
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Families
Identity
Secrets
Teenagers
Product details
- ISBN 9780571236336
- Weight: 130g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2007
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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We are where we come from?' That's not true. That's not true because if that's true there's no hope for any of us.
Lori is coming home from her first term at university. It's only been a few weeks and already things have gone badly wrong. But none of the rest of the family knows, or understands, what really happened.
In this fiercely observed family drama, three teenage girls struggle to define who they are, and why, and where they might be going.
Leaves won the George Devine Award 2006, the premier award for new writing by an emerging playwright in the UK and Ireland. The play opened at the Druid Theatre, Galway in March 2007 before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, London.
Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981 and is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and three previous collections of short stories: Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, she was the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories in 2019. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for 'All the People Were Mean and Bad'. Other awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the 2022 E. M. Forster Award.
