"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
down the road in a house by the sea with her husband William. Together Lucy and Bob go on
walks and talk about their lives their fears and regrets and what might have been. Lucy
meanwhile is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge now living in a retirement
community on the edge of town. Together they spend afternoons 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"--
