A heart-wrenching story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.
Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine.
A heart-wrenching story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer
prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge
*Publisher's description*
I am deeply impressed. 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. I have never read her before
and I knew within a few sentences that here was an artist to value
and respect
*Hilary Mantel*
Strout's best novel yet
*Ann Patchett*
An exquisite novel... in its careful words and vibrating silences,
My Name Is Lucy Barton offers us a rare wealth of emotion, from
darkest suffering to - 'I was so happy. Oh, I was happy' - simple
joy
*Claire Messud, New York Times Book Review*
So good I got goosebumps... a masterly novel of family ties by one
of America's finest writers
*Sunday Times*
My Name is Lucy Barton confirms Strout as a powerful storyteller
immersed in the nuances of human relationships... Deeply affecting
novel...visceral and heartbreaking...If she hadn't already won the
Pulitzer for Olive Kitteridge this new novel would surely be a
contender
*Observer*
Hypnotic...yielding a glut of profoundly human truths to do with
flight, memory and longing
*Mail on Sunday*
This is a book you'll want to return to again and again and
again
*Irish Independent*
Slim and spectacular...My Name Is Lucy Barton is smart and cagey in
every way. It starts with the clean, solid structure and narrative
distance of a fairy tale yet becomes more intimate and
improvisational, coming close at times to the rawness of
autofiction by writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard and Rachel Cusk.
Strout is playing with form here, with ways to get at a story, yet
nothing is tentative or haphazard. She is in supreme and
magnificent command of this novel at all times....
*Washington Post*
My Name Is Lucy Barton is a short novel about love, particularly
the complicated love between mothers and daughters... It evokes
these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the
book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very
down-to-earth and unpretentious one
*Newsday*
Her concise writing is a masterclass in deceptive
simplicity...Strout writes with an exacting rhythm, with each word
and clause perfectly placed and weighted and each sentence as clear
and bracing as grapefruit. It's a small masterpiece
*Daily Mail*
This short, simple, quiet novel wriggles its way right into your
heart and stays there
*Red*
A beautifully taut novel
*Guardian*
Agleam with extraordinary psychological insights...delicate, tender
but ruthless reveries
*Sunday Express*
An eerie, compelling novel, its deceptively simple language is a
'slight rush of words' which hold much more than they seem capable
of containing...This novel is about the need to create a story we
can live with when the real story cannot be told...
*Financial Times*
Strout uses a different voice herself in this novel: a spare simple
one, elegiac in tone that sometimes brings to mind Joan
Didion's
*The Tablet*
This is a glorious novel, deft, tender and true. Read it
*Sunday Telegraph*
An exquisitely written story...a brutally honest, absorbing and
emotive read
*Catholic Universe*
Honest, intimate and ultimately unforgettable
*Stylist*
Sympathetic, subtle and sometimes shocking
*Emma Healey*
Plain and beautiful...Strout writes with an extraordinary
tenderness and restraint
*Kate Summerscale*
One of this year's best novels: an intense, beautiful book about a
mother and a daughter, and the difficulty and ambivalence of family
life
*Marcel Theroux*
Elizabeth Strout's prose is like words doing jazz
*Rachel Joyce*
Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge is the best novel I've read for
some time
*David Nicholls*
An exquisite novel of careful words and vibrating silences
*New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2016*
In this quiet, well observed novel, a mother and her mysteriously
ill daughter rebuild their relationship in a New York hospital
room. Deft and tender, it lingers in the mind
*Daily Telegraph Books of the Year*
A worthy follow-up to Olive Kitteridge
*Guardian Books of the Year*
I loved My Name is Lucy Barton: she gets better with each book
*Guardian Books of the Year*
The standout novel of the year - a visceral account of the
relations between mother and daughter and the unreliability of
memory
*Guardian Books of the Year*
In a brilliant year for fiction, I've admired the nuanced restraint
of Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton
*Guardian Books of the Year*
Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton shouldn't work, but its
frail texture was a triumph of tenderness, and sent me back to her
excellent Olive Kitteridge
*The Spectator*
A rich account of a relationship between mother and daughter, the
frailty of memory and the power of healing
*New Statesman*
This physically slight book packs an unexpected emotional punch
*Daily Telegraph*
A novel offering more hope
*Daily Mail*
My Name Is Lucy Barton intrigues and pierces with its evocative,
skin-peeling back remembrances of growing up dirt-poor.
*The Times*
Masterly
*Anna Murphy*
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