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The Latest Breaking News from Olive Kitteridge

The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist is here – these are my must-reads in the running

From coming-of-age stories to sexual awakenings, these six titles have been recognised as future classics

The Independent UK

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – characters that never grow old

Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton return, the former now in a retirement community, in the author’s understated but hugely rewarding study of small-town life

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Strout: ‘All ordinary people are extraordinary’

The Pulitzer prize winner on uniting Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton in her new novel, her unfathomable dreams, and how she went from ‘blabbermouth’ to writer

The Guardian - UK

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Top 10 elderly heroines in fiction

Old women in novels have too often been malign or feeble, but fiercer and more vital senior citizens can be found in authors from Agatha Christie to Elizabeth Strout

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Strout's Lucy By the Sea: a claustrophobic portrait of a terrible pandemic year

In her latest novel, Lucy by the Sea, Elizabeth Strout captures the bewilderment of us all at the onset of the pandemic. Her character Lucy Barton admits not only did she not see it coming, but even when she did notice the virus’s existence, she did not really believe it…

The Conversation

Elizabeth Strout: ‘There’s a quiet rumbling of violence in America. Is it going to expand and explode?’

The Booker-shortlisted author on the enduring popularity of Olive Kitteridge, cancel culture and why she couldn’t avoid US politics in her latest Lucy Barton novel

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 difficult marriages in fiction

Whether they induce schadenfreude or pangs of recognition, mismatched couples have inspired brilliant novels by authors from Evelyn Waugh to Jean Rhys

The Guardian - UK

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