Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout Hardback Book 9780241634356

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNING BOOKERSHORTLISTED AUTHORStunning deeply felt and profoundly intelligent GuardianIts 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 nearby in a house next to the sea Together Lucy and Bob talk about their lives their hopes and regrets and what might have beenLucy meanwhile befriends one of Crosbys longest inhabitants Olive Kitteridge now living in a retirement community on the edge of town They spend afternoons together in Olives apartment telling each other stories Stories about people they have known quotunrecorded livesquot Olive calls them reanimating them and in the process imbuing their lives with meaningBrimming 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 quotLove comes in so many different forms but it is always lovequotA superbly...