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My Name Is Lucy Barton

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A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE & THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge

Lucy is recovering from an operation in a New York hospital when she wakes to find her estranged mother sitting by her bed. They have not seen one another in years. As they talk Lucy finds herself recalling her troubled rural childhood and how it was she eventually arrived in the big city, got married and had children. But this unexpected visit leaves her doubting the life she's made: wondering what is lost and what has yet to be found.

The story continues in Anything is Possible, Oh William! and Lucy by the Sea, available to read now!

'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith

'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel

'So good it gave me goosebumps. One of the best writers in America' Sunday Times

© Elizabeth Strout 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016

Critics Review

A novel of shining integrity and humour
Alice Munro on 'Amy and Isabelle'
As perfect a novel as you could ever read
Evening Standard on 'Olive Kitteridge'
My God - she is fun to read
Richard Bausch
As ambitious as Philip Roth's American Pastoral but more intimate in tone.
Time Magazine on 'The Burgess Boys'
Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force
The New Yorker on 'Olive Kitteridge'
Strout's prose propels the story forward with moments of startlingly poetic clarity.
The New Yorker on 'The Burgess Boys'
One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.
The New York Times Book Review on 'Amy and Isabelle'
Strout's greatly anticipated second novel . . . is an answered prayer.
Vanity Fair on 'Abide With Me'
Elizabeth Strout writes beautifully about the compromises and small joys of what we might call mature people. Delicate, nuanced, insightful, and profoundly moving, Olive Kitteridge provides exactly the pleasures and the depths of feeling that I crave when I read fiction
Ann Packer on 'Olive Kitteridge'
Author Elizabeth Strout
Narrator Kimberly Farr
Duration 4 hours and 12 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780241977101
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: health and illness, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Availability AU, GB, IE

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