*Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award*
''Smart, nuanced and sometimes heart-stopping.'' Anne Enright
-Outstanding.- Guardian
-Eleven perfect stories.- Irish Independent
-Glorious.- The Times
-My FAVE collection ever.- Pandora Sykes
In eleven stories, Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother-s brush with mortality, and from a Christmas Eve walking the city centre streets when everything seems possible, to a night flight from Canada which could change a life irrevocably, these are stories of love, loss and exile, of new beginnings and lives lived away from -home-.
-Embedded in these stories are exquisite, often moving descriptions where everyday moments mix with the monumental.- Financial Times
