A hopeful healing novel about new friendships old loves and the very human desire to leave a
mark on the world from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Booker-shortlisted author - available for
pre-order now It's autumn in Maine and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an
unfolding murder investigation defending a lonely isolated man accused of killing his mother.
He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton
who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together Lucy and Bob talk about their lives
their hopes and regrets and what might have been. Lucy meanwhile befriends one of Crosby's
longest inhabitants Olive Kitteridge now living in a retirement community on the edge of
town. They spend afternoons together in Olive's apartment telling each other stories. Stories
about people they have known - "unrecorded lives " Olive calls them - reanimating them and in
the process imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos TELL ME
EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers illuminating the ways in
which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says "Love comes in so many different forms
but it is always love." ' '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 which is out in September' Red -
Summer loving 'I am looking forward to the return of another literary friend Lucy Barton
when Elizabeth Strout publishes Tell Me Everything in August.' The Irish Times - The best books
of 2024 so far 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own'
Hilary Mantel 'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith 'She gets better with each book' Maggie
O'Farrell
