Tell Me Everything

Description

A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize shortlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton

It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William.

Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town.

Together, they spend afternoons in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known - "unrecorded lives," Olive calls them - reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.

Brimming with empathy and pathos, TELL ME EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, "Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love."

Reviews

Strout is, as ever, wonderfully attentive to life's inescapable cruelties and woes * Sunday Times *
'The shrewd-eyed observer of love, loss and the ties that bind - life, basically - is back. Strout weaves a gossamer light web of a community's hopes and setbacks.' -- Observer
a tale of hope and healing with all the same beauty she has become known for * i Paper *
I'm looking forward to the return of another literary friend, Lucy Barton, when Elizabeth Strout publishers Tell Me Everything in August' * The Irish Times - The best books of 2024 so far *
I'm a huge fan of everything Elizabeth Strout has written, so I will just have to be patient and wait for her new one, Tell Me Everything, which is out in September * Red - Summer loving *
Tantalising * Literary Review *
A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own -- Hilary Mantel
A terrific writer -- Zadie Smith
She gets better with each book -- Maggie O'Farrell
Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favourite writers -- Ann Patchett
No one else writes like Elizabeth Strout -- Rachel Joyce
You don't so much read a Strout novel as inhabit it * Guardian *
One of America's finest writers * Sunday Times *
What sets Strout's work apart is her characterisation . . . Long on empathy while steering clear of sentimentality, her prose bears the minerality of a crisp white wine, with a seeming simplicity that belies its profound power * Financial Times *
Divine. I couldn't wait for the end of each day so I could slip back into Strout's masterfully-crafted universe again. Such awareness of the human condition, such tenderness, such knowing. What more could you ask from a novel? -- Priscilla Morris

 

 

Author Biography: Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible, Amy and Isabelle, Abide With Me, The Burgess Boys, Olive Kitteridge, Olive, Again, Oh, William! and Lucy by the Sea. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize. She lives in Maine.