“Anything Is Possible is not exactly a sequel, but it does feature Lucy Barton as one of the characters. Set in and around Barton’s home town of Amgash, Illinois, this is a shimmering masterpiece of a book. It is a novel told in a series of interconnected stories, each featuring a tale of small-town life that illuminates a more profound truth.”
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout review – masterful chronicler of small-town America Elizabeth Day, The Guardian, April 23, 2017
““Anything Is Possible’’ confirms Strout as one of our most grace-filled, and graceful, writers.”
"‘Anything Is Possible’ for lives seeking a chance for change" Anthony Domestico, The Boston Globe, April 21, 2017
“In its entirety, “Anything Is Possible” is both sweeping in scope and incredibly introspective. That delicate balance is what makes its content so sharp and compulsively readable. ”
"‘Anything Is Possible,’ by Elizabeth Strout" Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2017
“Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, “Anything Is Possible” is a stunner.....
The book is a sequel, of sorts, to Strout’s novel, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” a story of the long shadow cast by a childhood spent in such a milieu.... In her new novel, a score of major and minor characters are drawn in such rich, crisp detail that they sear the heart. ”
"Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel focuses on troubled lives at home" Frank O Smith, Portland Press Herald, April 19,2017
“I am a very messy worker – I push these scenes around our table. It is a big table, and over time I realise which scenes are connected. I have never written anything from beginning to end, not a story or a novel. I just collect different scenes, and the ones that aren’t any good to me, get slipped on to the floor and eventually into the wastebasket.”
Elizabeth Strout, "My writing day: Elizabeth Strout: ‘I have never written anything from beginning to end’"
The Guardian, March 4, 2017
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