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Elizabeth Strout

Praise for The Things We Never Say

Strout’s 11th novel might well be the first great work of fiction about Trump’s presidency…This is a deeply existential novel, preoccupied with secrecy, loneliness and the limits of understanding. Strout is brillian ...

The Times

This is a profound, resplendent novel that stares our present moment in the face while throwing a lifeboat to cling to in the storm. And Artie Dam is someone you may never be able to forget, not least for his white ...

Financial Times

One of the most profoundly moving books I have read - I envy anyone reading it for the first time. Elizabeth Strout is one of those rare novelists whose books leave you a little wiser, open and more compassionate th ...

Rachel Joyce

Strout’s 11th novel might well be the first great work of fiction about Trump’s presidency…This is a deeply existential novel, preoccupied with secrecy, loneliness and the limits of understanding. Strout is brillian ...

The Times

This is a profound, resplendent novel that stares our present moment in the face while throwing a lifeboat to cling to in the storm. And Artie Dam is someone you may never be able to forget, not least for his white ...

Financial Times

One of the most profoundly moving books I have read - I envy anyone reading it for the first time. Elizabeth Strout is one of those rare novelists whose books leave you a little wiser, open and more compassionate th ...

Rachel Joyce

Strout’s 11th novel might well be the first great work of fiction about Trump’s presidency…This is a deeply existential novel, preoccupied with secrecy, loneliness and the limits of understanding. Strout is brillian ...

The Times

This is a profound, resplendent novel that stares our present moment in the face while throwing a lifeboat to cling to in the storm. And Artie Dam is someone you may never be able to forget, not least for his white ...

Financial Times

One of the most profoundly moving books I have read - I envy anyone reading it for the first time. Elizabeth Strout is one of those rare novelists whose books leave you a little wiser, open and more compassionate th ...

Rachel Joyce

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Articles featuring Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout on why readers mean more than winning the Booker Prize

Elizabeth Strout on why readers mean more than winning the Booker Prize

The author of Lucy By the Sea, Oh William! and Olive Kitteridge has charmed readers and critics alike by focusing on what other authors overlook: ordinary people.
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