In Words for Things, one of 11 neatly crafted short stories comprising Lucy Caldwell’s Intimacies, two mothers reminisce about a party they attended when they were young. One of them points out: “There’ll soon be less distance . The protagonist of another story, Lady Moon, recalls drinking Irish cream as a teenager: “Baileys and Sambuca, a Slippery Nipple. A Screaming Orgasm had amaretto and Kahlúa in it too. It was the height of sophistication, at the Wolsey or the Boom Boom Room.”

Source: The Irish Times May 21, 2021 04:52 UTC