SF Chronicle: A generous, compassionate novel

“Set in Maine, Elizabeth Strout’s “Tell Me Everything” is a generous, compassionate novel about the human need for connection, understanding and love, and the damage that occurs when those things are denied. The story brings together Strout’s most beloved characters from previous books — Olive Kitteridge, Lucy Barton and the Burgess Boys — in a series of episodes that span a year, a time of great change.”

— San Francisco Chronicle

Laurie Hertzel, “Review: Elizabeth Strout brings together beloved characters in novel about connection,” Datebook, San Francisco Chronicle, Aug 30, 2024.

TELL ME EVERYTHING out soon!

My new book, TELL ME EVERYTHING, comes out soon in both the US and the UK. Both covers are just lovely, I couldn’t be happier with them.

I’ll be on tour starting Sept 11, so please check the tour schedule and come say hello if you’re in the area!

Olive Kitteridge on the NYT Readers Top 100 Best Books

“Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” New York Times, July 18, 2024.

Olive Kitteridge on the NYT 100 Best Books List

“When this novel-in-stories won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009, it was a victory for crotchety, unapologetic women everywhere, especially ones who weren’t, as Olive herself might have put it, spring chickens... Her small-town travails instantly became stand-ins for something much bigger, even universal.”

— New York Times

“The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” New York Times, July 8, 2024.

LitHub: Writing 'Women of a Certain Age'

“The two characters that I have written who are older are Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton. It’s interesting because as I wrote them it was their character that was most important to me, and their age was simply a piece of that character. So even though I knew I was writing about older people I didn’t think about that in a way, except to make sure they were always who they were.”

— Elizabeth Strout

Lisa Gornick, “Writing ‘Women of a Certain Age’: A Roundtable on Crafting Older Female Characters in Fiction: Lisa Gornick Hosts a Conversation with Julia Alvarez, Fiona Davis, Andrea Lee, and Elizabeth Strout” LitHub, November 27, 2023.