Tell Me Everything

I'm a huge fan of everything Elizabeth Strout has written, so I will just have to be patient and wait for her new one, Tell Me Everything, which is out in September

Red - Summer loving

I'm looking forward to the return of another literary friend, Lucy Barton, when Elizabeth Strout publishes Tell Me Everything in August'

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'The shrewd-eyed observer of love, loss and the ties that bind – life, basically – is back. Strout weaves a gossamer light web of a community’s hopes and setbacks.'

Observer

Strout is, as ever, wonderfully attentive to life’s inescapable cruelties and woes

Sunday Times

a tale of hope and healing with all the same beauty she has become known for

i Paper

Tantalising

Literary Review

Strout delivers that most terrible and yet important of literary clichés: a book with heart

Financial Times

Strout’s ability to reveal the wonder in unrecorded lives continues to astonish

Telegraph

Pathos and dry humour gild tender reflections on loneliness and connection, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

Observer

Strout's gift is making readers stop and think about lives - from the exciting to the mundane - and that's what makes this book so appealing

Daily Mail

Elizabeth Strout welcomes us home again, back to the small town where we witness the interconnection of all the characters we've ever loved in her previous novels. It's a beautiful read reminding us that there is extraordinary love in ordinary actions.

Oprah Winfrey

Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent

Guardian

Above all, Tell Me Everything is a novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout's shimmering technique

The Washington Post

Elizabeth Strout packs more empathy onto a single page than most other writers scatter throughout an entire book

The Christian Science Monitor

There's a kind of alchemy at work in Elizabeth Strout's prose style

Chapter 16

Tell Me Everything is a sparkling and masterfully crafted novel that indulges our innate curiosity in humanity, grief, happiness and what it means to love

BookTrib

Simple. Relatable. Elegant... Strout's gift is making readers stop and think about lives - from the exciting to the mundane - and that's what makes this book so appealing.

Associated Press

A stunner that unites beloved characters from her previous books... Strout's musing on life and the importance of storytelling are downright profound

People

This is the pleasure of Strout's books. No previous experience required

Chicago Tribune

Tell Me Everything offers readers an abundance of the searing and plainspoken insights for which Strout is beloved

New York Times Book Review

An exploration of love, loss and unnoticed lives, but most particularly an exploration of the power of stories and storytelling

Wall Street Journal

Lucy Barton, Bob Burgess and Olive Kitteridge are among the signature creations of the modern literary canon. May we continue to reap the richness and surprise of their separate and commingled lives

Portland Press-Herald

An achingly moving and exhilarating novel

Boston Globe

Rejoice Strout Fans

Los Angeles Times

Remarkably-crafted

Town & Country

Exactly the book her fans have been waiting for

Minneapolis Star Tribune

A generous compassionate novel about the need for human need for connection, understanding and love, and the damage that occurs when those things are denied

San Francisco Chronicle

Will delight Strout fans

Vulture

A novel of well-observed connected short stories about fear, regret and friendship

TIME

It's quietly wonderful and wise

AARP

If you've never cracked the spine of a Strout novel before, don't sweat it - you'll feel like a Crosby, Maine, local by the end of the first chapter

Oprah Daily

Deeply human and vibrant portrait of relationships

She Reads

The Strout hive is strong, and no doubt it will be pleased with her latest novel

Lit Hub

With tenderness, honesty, intimacy, and compassion, Strout uses her cunning powers of observation to draw readers beyond the mundane to the miraculous complexities where true friendship lies

Booklist, starred review

Strout's many fans will love this sweet, rambling tale

Kirkus

Longtime fans and newcomers alike will relish this

Publishers Weekly, starred review

Strout's delicate unpicking of lives lived quietly, in disarmingly beautiful prose, confirms again her status as one of America's greatest living writers.

Daunt Books

A terrific writer

Zadie Smith

She gets better with each book

Maggie O'Farrell

A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own

Hilary Mantel

No one else writes like Elizabeth Strout

Rachel Joyce

You don't so much read a Strout novel as inhabit it

Guardian

Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favourite writers

Ann Patchett

One of America's finest writers

Sunday Times

What sets Strout's work apart is her characterisation . . . Long on empathy while steering clear of sentimentality, her prose bears the minerality of a crisp white wine, with a seeming simplicity that belies its profound power

Financial Times

Divine. I couldn't wait for the end of each day so I could slip back into Strout's masterfully-crafted universe again. Such awareness of the human condition, such tenderness, such knowing. What more could you ask from a novel?

Priscilla Morris