Leaves

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.

Born in Belfast in 1981, Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two previous collections of short stories. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, she was also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories in 2019, and she was recently awarded the E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the Walter Scott Prize.