Lucy by the Sea
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  • Published: 5 October 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241606995
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99

Lucy by the Sea

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Paperback
12 Sep 2023
Hardback
5 Oct 2022
EBook
20 Sep 2022
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6 Oct 2022
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From the Booker Shortlisted author of OH WILLIAM!

'It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us'

In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the sea.

Rich with empathy and a searing clarity, Lucy by the Sea evokes the fragility and uncertainty of the recent past, as well as the possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this miraculous novel are the deep human connections that sustain us, even as the world seems to be falling apart.
  • Published: 5 October 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241606995
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Elizabeth Strout

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.

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Praise for Lucy by the Sea

Lucy by the Sea might be my favourite Elizabeth Strout novel yet. Such grace, such empathy, such exquisite and sharp observation - and yet so very much itself too. No one else writes like Elizabeth Strout

Rachel Joyce

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