Daphne by Lucy Caldwell

An original short story commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the author Lucy Caldwell. Read by Michelle Fairley.<br /> <br /> Born in Belfast, Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas and two collections of short stories: Multitudes (Faber, 2016) and Intimacies (Faber, 2021). She is also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber, 2019). In 2021 she won the BBC National Short Story Award with her story &ldquo;All the People Were Mean and Bad.&rdquo; Her most recent novel, These Days (Faber, 2022), was a Sunday Times, Times, Irish Independent, Spectator and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year.<br /> <br /> Writer: Lucy Caldwell<br /> Reader: Michelle Fairley<br /> Producer: Michael Shannon<br /> Executive Editor: Andy Martin<br /> <br /> A BBC Northern Ireland production.