![]() 'Elizabeth Strout restores my faith in the word, in the quality of fiction to shine light on even the dark and still make us feel refreshed and cleansed and glad. They are phoning in crisis or, worse, not phoning. ![]() ![]() Strout’s understanding of the human condition is capacious. 'A novel of shining integrity and humour.' Alice Munro on 'Amy and Isabelle' Lucy by the Sea is also about a mother and her grown-up children. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Pulitzer Prizewinning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdownand the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. My Name Is Lucy Barton is a tender expression of the meaning of familial love from one of America's finest writers. Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all the one between mother and daughter. ![]() Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront her past, uncovering long-buried memories of a profoundly impoverished childhood and her present, as the façade of her new life in New York begins to crumble, awakening her to the reality of her faltering marriage and her unsteady journey towards becoming a writer.įrom Lucy's hospital bed, we are drawn ever more deeply into the emotional complexity of family life, the inescapable power of the past, and the memories - however painful - that bind a family together. An exquisite new novel from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.Ī mother comes to visit her daughter in hospital after having not seen her in many years. ![]()
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