5/13/2023 0 Comments Lucy is Lost by Ed King![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As William drives her off to Maine, we are immediately returned to the drama of those early dark unvaccinated days when frightened people, happily or not, were confined at close quarters for an unknown quantity of time. Of course, a large part of the fascination lies in the fact that this isn’t just Lucy’s recent past but our own too. Indeed it’s a truly monumental piece of work – one that you can’t help feeling deserves a less mischievously banal title (can you imagine a male writer calling a book Lucy By the Sea?). Strout isn’t the first writer to go there, but she certainly makes magnificent and thrilling use of it in this, her most nuanced – and intensely moving – Lucy Barton novel yet. The disarming situation described at the opening of Elizabeth Strout’s new novel might seem fantastical, the stuff of a million post-apocalyptic movies, were it not for the fact that every single one of us has recently lived through it. ![]()
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