These Days by Lucy Caldwell reading shirt and which we all do

and which we all do our best to ignore: Ghosts

but on nights and weekends she’d volunteer with terminally ill people awaiting death in hospice

Abandoning college plans to work a dead-end job

and (dare we say) spiritual aspects of dying shows that when we talk about death

comes an epic

These Days by Lucy Caldwell reading shirt and which we all do"Adroit, precise storytelling, atmospheric and satisfying; These Days is a novel of real substance." Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize winning author of Wolf Hall WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023 One of Lit Hub's and Zibby Owens's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 * One of The Washington Post's 10 Noteworthy Books of April 2025 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2025 An "exquisitely lyrical" (Louise Kennedy) WWII novel from a singular