From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout has just released a new book.
Tell Me Everything is a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the human desire to leave a mark on the world.
It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer, Bob Burgess, has decided to get involved in a murder investigation. He has to defend a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother.
He has formed a beautiful friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives in a house beside the sea. They talk about their lives, hopes and regrets, and what might have been.
Meanwhile, Lucy also befriended one of Crosby’s longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, who lives in a retirement community on the edge of town.
They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories or “unrecorded lives,” as Olive calls them.
Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her empathetic powers, showcasing how relationships keep us afloat.
As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”
Tell Me Everything was published on the 10th of September.
Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize.
She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine.
