My Name Is Lucy Barton
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By Elizabeth Strout
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
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.
Look for Elizabeth Strout’s highly anticipated new work of fiction, Anything Is Possible, which is available for pre-order now.
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Lucy Barton looks back to a time she spent in hospital in the 1980s when an unexpected five day visit from her estranged mother prompted memories about the narrator’s hard and lonely childhood, and reflection on her current life as a writer, wife and mother. It’s quiet and simple storytelling about complex and troubled relationships and emotions.
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