Subtle but stunning novel in which a woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the landscape of her childhood, seeking solace in the quiet contemplation of human relationships and the nature of friendship, forgiveness and redemption.
Stunned by a revelation about her husband, Eliza is forced to reconfigure her future and start afresh. Swapping the family home for a hotel room, she sets about earning a living. A life- affirming tale of resilience set in 1960s Texas.
Lucy Barton, newly settled in Maine, meets obstinate, 90-year-old Olive Kitteridge, now in a care home, and they form a friendship trading stories of the ‘unrecorded lives’ of the people they know. Poignant, funny, full of sharp and wise observations, dramatic and emotional.