'Strout's best novel yet' - Ann Pachett on My Name is Lucy Barton
I have never read her before and I knew within a few sentences that here was an artist to value and respect' - Hillary Mantel on My Name is Lucy Barton Writing of this quality comes from a commitment to listening, from a perfect attunement to the human condition, from an attention to reality so exact that it goes beyond a skill and becomes a virtue. pages hold what life puts in: experience, joy, grief, and the sometimes-painful journey to love' * Observer on Olive Kitteridge * 'Strout has a wonderful ability to turn a phrase. 'Masterfully wrought' * Vanity Fair on Olive Kitteridge * 'Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force' * The New Yorker on Olive Kitteridge * So astonishingly good that I shall be reading it once a year for the foreseeable future and very probably for the rest of my life' * Evening Standard on Olive Kitteridge * 'As perfect a novel as you will ever read. 'Strout's prose propels the story forward with moments of startlingly poetic clarity.' * The New Yorker on The Burgess Boys *
'A novel of shining integrity and humour' - Alice Munro on Amy and Isabelle National BestsellerĪvailable in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.'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 & Isabelle * Witty and often profound, Amy and Isabelle confirmed Elizabeth Strout as a powerful new talent. And as Amy seeks comfort elsewhere, she discovers the fragility of human happiness through other dramas, from the horror of a missing child to the trials of Fat Bev, the community peacemaker. But when Amy is discovered behind the steamed-up windows of a car with her math teacher, the vast and icy distance between mother and daughter becomes unbridgeable.Īs news of the scandal reaches every ear, it is Isabelle who suffers from the harsh judgment of Shirley Falls, intensifying her shame about her own secret past. And eating, sleeping, and working side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls doesn't help matters. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother-and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
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