Strout captures the minutiae of recent years with insight and compassion iNews, 40 Best Books to Read This Autumn But we are all weightless in the end." Sarah Collins, Prospect Lucy finds love oin the novel, but Strout never looks away from the loneliness that is inherent in being human: "We all live with people - and places - and things that we have given great weight to. Strout's most distinctive skill - the ability to render every character, big or small, with precision - is on full display. Superb Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled GroundĪn unflinching depiction of the ways we are all alone. Not only reflecting disbelief, isolation and how different and at the same time similar we are to each other, but also what happens to human relationships when we can't be together. Lucy by the Sea holds a mirror up to everything we have been through recently. It is a compassionate, life-affirming read, and a much-needed balm for these trying times Straits Times m oments of quiet revelation - infidelities, or glimpses into the indignities of incontinence and cancer - feel poignant and real, but also unsentimental. has that rare ability to immerse readers in the world of her characters. I cannot get Lucy Barton out of my head The TimesĪ superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own Hilary Mantel Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favourite writers Ann Patchett
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