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DARK SECRETS: Lucy barton - The Real Truth

Where to start with: Elizabeth Strout

A guide to the Pulitzer-winning novelist’s tales of small-town life, family secrets, and fraught relationships

The Guardian - UK

The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 has gone to a debut author – here’s where to read the winning book

The winning novel is “a classic in the making”

The Independent UK

The Women's Prize for Fiction shines a light on personal freedom and the search for human connection

Miranda July and debut author Aria Aber are shortlisted in this year's Women's Prize for Fiction

Marie Claire

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Amazon’s Book of the Year 2024 and similar reads to dive into

From best-selling romances to non-fiction marvels

Evening Standard

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – characters that never grow old

Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton return, the former now in a retirement community, in the author’s understated but hugely rewarding study of small-town life

The Guardian - UK

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – when Olive Kitteridge met Lucy Barton

The worlds of Strout’s previous books converge in this quietly stunning novel of interlocking stories

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Strout: ‘All ordinary people are extraordinary’

The Pulitzer prize winner on uniting Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton in her new novel, her unfathomable dreams, and how she went from ‘blabbermouth’ to writer

The Guardian - UK

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The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami

The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK

Holiday reading list: 10 standout books you’ll love under a beach umbrella

The holidays are a great time to bury yourself in a new read, so here are 10 books to keep you reading over the break.

The New Daily

Holiday books: Fiction

“The Marriage Portrait,” by Maggie O’Farrell. (Knopf, $28.)

Tribune News Service

Elizabeth Strout's Lucy By the Sea: a claustrophobic portrait of a terrible pandemic year

In her latest novel, Lucy by the Sea, Elizabeth Strout captures the bewilderment of us all at the onset of the pandemic. Her character Lucy Barton admits not only did she not see it coming, but even when she did notice the virus’s existence, she did not really believe it…

The Conversation

Lucy By the Sea by Elizabeth Strout review – Lucy Barton: the Covid years

Set against the backdrop of the pandemic, the Booker-shortlisted author’s monumental new novel is her most nuanced and intensely moving to date

The Guardian - UK

The Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: a reading guide

A blistering critique of White America, a devastating novella set in Ireland, and a Zimbabwean Animal Farm for the 21st century are among the novels vying for the prestigious literary award.

ABC News

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout review – lockdown confessions

This follow-up to the Booker-shortlisted Oh William! is a wondrously living record of pandemic pressures and the power of the past

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Elizabeth Strout: ‘There’s a quiet rumbling of violence in America. Is it going to expand and explode?’

The Booker-shortlisted author on the enduring popularity of Olive Kitteridge, cancel culture and why she couldn’t avoid US politics in her latest Lucy Barton novel

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Lucy by the Sea,' by Elizabeth Strout

FICTION: In the third novel narrated by Lucy Barton, COVID hits and Lucy heads for Maine with her ex-husband, William.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve no idea how we’ll pick a winner’: the challenge of a spectacular Booker shortlist

From a surreal African kingdom to a Sri Lankan afterlife, via murder, morality, grief and healing … One of this year’s prize judges assesses the six finalists they must choose between

The Guardian - UK

Booker prize longlist of 13 writers aged 20 to 87 announced

List comprises 13 writers of fiction, from NoViolet Bulawayo to Leila Mottley, described as ‘stimulating, surprising, nourishing’ by judging panel

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