These Days by Lucy Caldwell is a beautiful, tender, and sharp historical fiction novel set in 1941 in Belfast. Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey - one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman - as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz.

I really enjoyed this one. It felt like a different war-time book. Something more honest and humane. With beautiful characters, it was brilliant to read about the lives of two 'ordinary' women, instead of the typical war hero books, and in Belfast no less. Both women at significant turning points in their lives, we see how the war changes them and shapes them. 

A special novel from start to finish.