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My favorite book I read this year was Lucy by the Sea, by Elizabeth Strout. I've enjoyed all of Strout's books about Lucy Barton, of which this is the fourth. In this pandemic-era novel, Lucy's sometimes-overbearing ex-husband, William, demands that she leave New York City as Covid hits, and come with him to a seaside town in Maine to wait things out. The relationship between Lucy and William is depicted with humor and sensitivity, and Strout does an amazing job of recreating 2020, with all its fears and frustrations and horror. I also enjoy the way Strout brings characters back from her other novels, including Bob Burgess from The Burgess Boys, to play cameo roles. I'm looking forward to Strout's latest novel, Tell Me Everything, which brings Lucy together with Olive Kitteridge, perhaps the author's most famous creation.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.
“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
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Time, The…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
This is a series of detailed, magical, emotionally-potent stories from the life and afterlife of Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of northern England, and Cuddy to his followers. Born in about 634, within 30 years he was known throughout the Scottish Borders and Northumbria as a traveller, preacher and nature-lover. Joining the community at Lindisfarne, Cuddy served there for more than a decade before retreating to offshore islands where he died in 687. A century later the Vikings came and the monks of Lindisfarne fled, taking Cuddy's uncorrupted, sainted corpse with them. In dialogue with Cuddy's spirit, a 200-year vision quest leads the monks to Durham, where they found a magnificent cathedral to house his relics. Every step of the quest, every stone of the building, and every great event around and within Durham Cathedral, offers a way for Myers to tell a story of wonder and subtle redemption. Likewise for…
**Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023**
**Chosen as a book to watch out for in 2023 by The Times, Observer, Guardian, Irish TImes and Scotsman**
'An epic the north has long deserved' FINANCIAL TIMES
'A sensational piece of storytelling ... A singular and significant achievement' GUARDIAN
'Marvellous, artful, enchanted' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Cements Myers's standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' I NEWS
The triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron…
