Lucy by the Sea
- Author Elizabeth Strout
- Narrator Kimberly Farr
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 8 hours and 20 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary romance, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place.
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What to expect
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From the Pulitzer prize-winning author of MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON
In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the sea.
Rich with empathy and a searing clarity, Lucy by the Sea evokes the fragility and uncertainty of the recent past, as well as the possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this miraculous novel are the deep human connections that sustain us, even as the world seems to be falling apart.
© Elizabeth Strout 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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Stunningly universal . . . with brilliant acuity, Strout has seized on the parallels between Lucy Barton’s pervasive sense of alienation and the way the recent global crisis has exposed the helplessness felt by ordinary people everywhere
Daily Telegraph, 5 stars -
[Strout’s] novels, intricately and painstakingly crafted, overlap and intertwine to create an instantly recognizable fictional landscape . . . you don’t so much read a Strout novel as inhabit it
Guardian -
A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own
Hilary Mantel -
I cannot get Lucy Barton out of my head
The Times -
Strout’s portrait of a divorced couple united by worry for their two grown daughters illuminates a refreshingly unexplored angle of Covid . . . They leap off the page along with their creator’s salty wit and a phantom scent of hand sanitizer
New York Times -
Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favourite writers
Ann Patchett
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