EAN: 9781398532779

STROUT ELIZABETH THE BURGESS BOYS

From the author of Tell Me Everything   My Name is Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge : a
gorgeous new edition of Elizabeth Strout' s celebrated novel The Burgess Boys       Haunted
by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children  Jim and Bob Burgess
escaped from their Maine hometown for New York as soon as they could. Jim  a successful
corporate lawyer  has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives  something that Bob  a
legal aid attorney who idolises Jim  has always taken in his stride.     But when their sister
desperately calls them back home to Shirley Falls to help her teenage son out of trouble 
long-buried tensions begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever.   A
stunning story about the tragedies and triumphs of two brothers  from the bestselling author of
the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge . Exploring the ties that bind us to family and
home  this novel will resonate with readers long after they turn the final page.     Praise for
Elizabeth Strout    ‘Astonishingly good’  Evening Standard    ' So good it gave me
goosebumps’  Sunday Times    ‘Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force’ The New
Yorker      ' A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' 
Hilary Mantel

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