My Name Is Lucy Barton
Author: Strout, Elizabeth
ISBN: 9780241248782
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 11 Oct 2016
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
A heart-wrenching story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge
A mother comes to visit her daughter in hospital after having not seen her in many years. Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront her past, uncovering long-buried memories of a profoundly impoverished childhood; and her present, as the fa ade of her new life in New York begins to crumble, awakening her to the reality of her faltering marriage and her unsteady journey towards becoming a writer.
From Lucy's hospital bed, we are drawn ever more deeply into the emotional complexity of family life, the inescapable power of the past, and the memories - however painful - that bind a family together.
ISBN: 9780241248782
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 11 Oct 2016
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
A heart-wrenching story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge
A mother comes to visit her daughter in hospital after having not seen her in many years. Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront her past, uncovering long-buried memories of a profoundly impoverished childhood; and her present, as the fa ade of her new life in New York begins to crumble, awakening her to the reality of her faltering marriage and her unsteady journey towards becoming a writer.
From Lucy's hospital bed, we are drawn ever more deeply into the emotional complexity of family life, the inescapable power of the past, and the memories - however painful - that bind a family together.
