*Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award*

In eleven stories, Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world.

From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother's brush with mortality, and from a Christmas Eve walking the city centre streets when everything seems possible, to a night flight from Canada which could change a life irrevocably, these are stories of love, loss and exile, of new beginnings and lives lived away from 'home'.