NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” ( People ) of a novel about new friendships old loves and
the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. “ Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic
fable. . . . A novel of moods how they govern our personal lives and public spaces reflected
in Strout’s shimmering technique.”— The Washington Post SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE
FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time NPR Vogue Parade With her remarkable insight
into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes Elizabeth Strout returns to the
town of Crosby Maine and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge Bob
Burgess and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst fall in love and yet
choose to be apart and grapple with the question as Lucy Barton puts it “What does anyone’s
life mean ?” 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 ex-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. 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.”
