Tell Me Everything

A Novel

De: Elizabeth Strout

Narrado por: Kimberly Farr

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

“Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique.”—The Washington Post

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Vogue, Parade

With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

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 down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic 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.”

©2024 Elizabeth Strout (P)2024 Random House Audio

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“Strout superfans will be thrilled to see the prickly protagonist of the author’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge . . . finally cross paths with the tender heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Lucy by the Sea. But if you’ve never cracked the spine of a Strout novel before, don’t sweat it—you’ll feel like a Crosby, Maine, local by the end of the first chapter.”—Oprah Daily

“A rich tapestry, intricately wrought yet effortlessly realized, both suspenseful and meditative . . . Suffering and the enduring of it, the human impulse to solve and resolve confronting the fundamental unknowability of others and life’s essential mystery, finding hope, love, and connection in improbable places: Strout’s perpetual preoccupations are here explored with clear sighted rigor, emotional generosity, and bighearted joy.”—The Boston Globe

“The narrative threads make for dishy small-town drama, but even more satisfying are the insights Strout weaves into the dialogue. Longtime fans and newcomers alike will relish this.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“With tenderness, honesty, intimacy, and compassion, Strout uses her cunning powers of observation to draw readers beyond the mundane to the miraculous complexities where true friendship lies. . . . An absolute must-have.”—Booklist, starred review

love!!

The story...as always...was superb.
the narrator...excellent.
Love this author. I was taken in immediately. Loved it all!!!

Lucy and Bob

The special friendship between Lucy and Bob Burgess evolves.
Family and small town friendships change and grow. Started slow but I loved it!

Stories tied together

I loved it!! Multiple stories were woven together in an artful way. I hope there’s another Olive novel in the works!

It was okay

I don’t consider this book to be a bad book, but I was also not overwhelmed by the story. It felt like it was disjointed and just went on and on with not much point to it.

Narration made listening difficult to get through

Story was average. Narrator completely ones the listen for me. I was tempted to stop, very poor choice.

Love is love

I love everything about this book. She writes about real life, I feel that I am just like the characters portrayed, real people.

The narrator has to calm down!

I could barely enjoy the book because the narrator made the female characters sound like giddy fools. Her exaggerated fake enthusiasm altered the story and made me strongly dislike Lucy. i listened to it at 1.7 speed to preserve my sanity. If I read the book, it would have perhaps been a different experience. A narrator should show up and wear beige.

I almost stopped reading this book.

I found no point to the book when I started to listening to it. I looked to see how many reviews it go and it scored high. I kept going and somewhere not too far in, I got hooked. I loved this book and the people's stories. I didn't want to shut it off. Everyone has a a story. I enjoyed this book very much.

Slow but meaningful

It was a book about the realities of love, loss and life. Nothing groundbreaking here and I think best for a boomer generation.

Meandering

I found it difficult to follow and not particularly engaging yet I finished it. The narrator did an adequate job.