On a premonition, Lucy Barton cancelled her book tour in Europe.

Summary: Lucy Barton goes with her ex-husband William to a house on the coast of Maine during the COVID lockdown of 2020. At the heart of this story are the deep human connections that unite us even when weâ?re apartâ?the pain of a beloved daughterâ?s suffering, the emptiness that comes from the death of a loved one, the promise of a new friendsh … ( more) Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace, and possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. For the next several months, itâ?s just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea.

With her trademark spare, crystalline proseâ?a voice infused with â?intimate, fragile, desperate humannessâ? ( The Washington Post)â?Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton through the early days of the pandemic.Īs a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. May droves of readers come to feel enlarged, comforted, and genuinely uplifted by Lucyâ?s story.â?â? The Boston Globe Â?No novelist working today has Stroutâ?s extraordinary capacity for radical empathy. HTML: From Pulitzer Prizeâ?winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdownâ?and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.

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