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  • Published: 10 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241634363
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $26.00

Tell Me Everything

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10 Jun 2025
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10 Sep 2024
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10 Sep 2024
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10 Sep 2024
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A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize shortlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton

It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby’s longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known – \"unrecorded lives,\" Olive calls them – reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.

Brimming with empathy and pathos, TELL ME EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, \"Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.\"
  • Published: 10 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241634363
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine.

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Also by Elizabeth Strout

My Name Is Lucy Barton
Anything is Possible
Olive, Again
Lucy by the Sea
Oh William!
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Praise for Tell Me Everything

I'm a huge fan of everything Elizabeth Strout has written, so I will just have to be patient and wait for her new one, Tell Me Everything, which is out in September

Red - Summer loving

I'm looking forward to the return of another literary friend, Lucy Barton, when Elizabeth Strout publishes Tell Me Everything in August'

The Irish Times - The best books of 2024 so far

'The shrewd-eyed observer of love, loss and the ties that bind – life, basically – is back. Strout weaves a gossamer light web of a community’s hopes and setbacks.'

Observer

Strout is, as ever, wonderfully attentive to life’s inescapable cruelties and woes

Sunday Times

a tale of hope and healing with all the same beauty she has become known for

i Paper

Tantalising

Literary Review