From Sunday Miscellany's recent recording at Belfast Book Festival, hear Lucy Caldwell on childhood eye surgery, spirit animals and ways of seeing...
"When I was 9, I had an eye operation. It took place under general anaesthetic, and when I came round in the recovery room, I asked the nurse why there was a crow at the end of my bed.
She told me to shush, to relax, there was no crow.
There was: I'd been watching it for ages, the way it perched on the guard-rail of the gurney, watching me, its bright, bright eyes. But as soon as she told me I was seeing things, it vanished...."
Lucy Caldwell's latest book is the collection of short stories, Openings, published by Faber.
Listen back to the programme in full here and find more from Sunday Miscellany at the programme website here
