These Days

"It’s April 1941, just before the “Belfast Blitz,” Germany’s deadly bombing of the capital of Northern Ireland. Two sisters, Audrey and Emma Bell, are both testing boundaries – society’s and their own – to find out what kind of women they want to be. Lucy Caldwell so beautifully balances a book that feels intimate and deeply personal, as if you’re reading someone’s diary, with the greater historical resonance of this very real chapter of World War II history (one readers might not know)."