Product Description
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Author: Elizabeth Strout
Format: Paperback
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's new novel Tell Me Everything is out now!
About the Author
Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible, Oh William!, Amy and Isabelle, Abide With Me, The Burgess Boys, Olive Kitteridge, and Olive, Again. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize. She lives in Maine.
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