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Oh William!Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband and longtime, on again off again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait,

and leaning into glitches and skittish rhythms

In language both archaic and lyrical

and already suspects Newton of being an alien

Audio commentary with film historian and author Lee Gambin (2021)

Tim Judah is the Balkans correspondent of The Economist

If I got a little carried away or stepped on anyone’s toes in my quest to do something interesting and original

Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless

- If humans colonise Mars

before Ender's Game and Neuromancer

author of The Tidal Year

which he begins to frequent with his wife (Helen Mirren) and a band of crooks

and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory