{"product_id":"leaves","title":"Leaves","description":"About the Author\n\nLucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981. She 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'. Other awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018 and in 2019 she was the editor of Being Various - New Irish Short Stories.\n\nProduct Description\n\nWe 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.\n\nLori 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.\n\nIn this fiercely observed family drama, three teenage girls struggle to define who they are, and why, and where they might be going.\n\nLeaves 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.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40741763874901,"sku":"9780571236336N","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/c1a8c087-a60d-451d-9d28-6aa465e88dc3.jpg?v=1702673454","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/leaves","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}