Oh William!: From the author of My Name is Lucy Barton

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022<\/b>
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES<\/i> BESTSELLER

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life<\/b>

Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership.

Oh William!<\/i> captures the joy and sorrow of watching children grow up and start families of their own; of discovering family secrets, late in life, that alter everything we think we know about those closest to us; and the way people live and love, against all odds. At the heart of this story is the unforgettable, indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who once again offers a profound, lasting reflection on the mystery of existence. 'This is the way of life,'<\/i> Lucy says. 'The many things we do not know until it is too late.'<\/i>

'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own'<\/b> Hilary Mantel<\/b>

'A terrific writer'<\/b> Zadie Smith<\/b>

'She gets better with each book' Maggie O'Farrell

'One of America's finest writers' Sunday Times<\/i>

'This is meticulously observed writing, full of probing psychological insight. Lucy Barton is one of literature's immortal characters-brittle, damaged, unravelling, vulnerable and, most of all, ordinary-like us all' Booker Prize Judges

<\/b>Elizabeth Strout's new novel Tell Me Everything <\/i>is available now!<\/b><\/p><\/P>"