Lucy By The Sea Elizabeth Strout by Elizabeth Strout 9780593446065, 0593446062 instant download after payment.

“No novelist working today has Strout’s extraordinary capacity for radical empathy... May droves of readers come to feel enlarged, comforted, and genuinely uplifted by Lucy’s story.” —  The Boston Globe 

With her trademark spare, crystalline prose — a voice infused with “intimate, fragile, desperate humanness” (The Washington Post) — Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it’s just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. 

Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy By The Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace, and possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this story are the deep human connections that unite us even when we’re apart.

"Lucy By the Sea is a chronicle of a plague year... It captures its disruptions, uncertainties, and anxieties better than any novel I've read to date on the subject... Heartwarming as well as sombre... The evolving dynamic between Lucy and William is wonderfully wrought, touching but never mawkish... Although simple on the surface, Strout's new novel manages, like her others, to encompass love and friendship, joy and anxiety, grief and grievances, loneliness and shame."  -  Heller McAlpin, NPR