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My Name Is Lucy Barton

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize-shortlisted author

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My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
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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 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016

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Critic reviews

A novel of shining integrity and humour (Alice Munro on 'Amy and Isabelle')
As perfect a novel as you could ever read (Evening Standard on 'Olive Kitteridge')
My God - she is fun to read (Richard Bausch)
As ambitious as Philip Roth's American Pastoral but more intimate in tone. (Time Magazine on 'The Burgess Boys')
Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force (The New Yorker on 'Olive Kitteridge')
Strout's prose propels the story forward with moments of startlingly poetic clarity. (The New Yorker on 'The Burgess Boys')
One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place. (The New York Times Book Review on 'Amy and Isabelle')
Strout's greatly anticipated second novel . . . is an answered prayer. (Vanity Fair on 'Abide With Me')
Elizabeth Strout writes beautifully about the compromises and small joys of what we might call mature people. Delicate, nuanced, insightful, and profoundly moving, Olive Kitteridge provides exactly the pleasures and the depths of feeling that I crave when I read fiction (Ann Packer on 'Olive Kitteridge')
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enjoyed this - another tale of struggle with poverty in US rural life - thoughtful, unexpected , insights into Lucy who is herself a writer....

beautifully read melancholy story...

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Such a beautiful, sensitive story and so exquisitely read. Listen to it and you'll see.

Perfection

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This is Lucy’s story but, I feel,it holds so much more that resonates with mothers and daughters. Elizabeth Strout has a lightness if touch in her writing that can stir such depth of emotion. Remarkable both in what is written and by what remains unsaid. The narrator is perfect for her style of writing in my view.

Beautiful writing.

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I really enjoyed the slow, calmly story. Well read. Mostly focussed around the dialogue between mother and daughter.

Beautifully written and read

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Language is almost Joyce like in its effort to bridge the gap between reader and writer

Story - but narrator - Kimberly Fyne was superb!

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