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Tell Me Everything

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Tell Me Everything

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique.”—The Washington Post

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Vogue, Parade

With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known—“unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them—reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.

Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”

©2024 Elizabeth Strout (P)2024 Random House Audio
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“Strout superfans will be thrilled to see the prickly protagonist of the author’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge . . . finally cross paths with the tender heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Lucy by the Sea. But if you’ve never cracked the spine of a Strout novel before, don’t sweat it—you’ll feel like a Crosby, Maine, local by the end of the first chapter.”Oprah Daily

“A rich tapestry, intricately wrought yet effortlessly realized, both suspenseful and meditative . . . Suffering and the enduring of it, the human impulse to solve and resolve confronting the fundamental unknowability of others and life’s essential mystery, finding hope, love, and connection in improbable places: Strout’s perpetual preoccupations are here explored with clear sighted rigor, emotional generosity, and bighearted joy.”The Boston Globe

“The narrative threads make for dishy small-town drama, but even more satisfying are the insights Strout weaves into the dialogue. Longtime fans and newcomers alike will relish this.”Publishers Weekly, starred review

“With tenderness, honesty, intimacy, and compassion, Strout uses her cunning powers of observation to draw readers beyond the mundane to the miraculous complexities where true friendship lies. . . . An absolute must-have.”Booklist, starred review

What listeners say about Tell Me Everything

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Interwoven Stories Well-developed Characters Insightful Observations Quiet Storytelling Authentic Maine Accent
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Love these characters

As much as I adore these characters, and I really do, I didn’t enjoy this book as much as the previous ones. It dragged for me, and I felt the characters had grown tired. Or maybe tiresome?
It’s a good listen, just not a great one.

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Life stories

Although the narration starts off distracting. It gets so much better as the story unfolds and the story was so worth it.

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What happened?

After all of her good books, and I loved pretty much every one of them…… I don't know what happened to here. After a certain point, the book just became a series of random words.. there doesn't seem to be any real story, it almost seems as if the author is relying upon her her old works to bring about a new book . I would say that is probably time to end the series.

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Not much of a plot

I enjoyed having all of the characters from Elizabeth Strout’s earlier novels together in one place but the story dragged. All of the stories about “unrecorded lives” made they think there wasn’t any reason they should have been recorded! It wasn’t unpleasant but won’t linger in my memory.

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Soooo Beautiful!

I love all of Elizabeth Strout’s books!! I also adore this reader!!! This book allowed me to visit Lucy and Olive again!!! These characters will be with me forever!!! There are few books that I would re- read, but this is certainly one of them!!! I was sad when it ended!!! The characters were so beautiful and they had depth and complexity! Thank you for this beautiful work!

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so many characters but it became clear there was a reason for that.

very thought provoking when I finally put it all together. bottom line....love is love. I loved this book.

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Life

The characters quickly became people to me whose stories mattered and why they mattered was the theme of the book.

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A quietly passionate novel

The writer is so emotionally astute and skilled that I found myself in tears without realizing she’d brought me there. The stories of people living worthy, important, and quiet lives full of pain and love were beautiful.

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Profound

There were moments that I felt the revelations in these stories were such poignant truth at the heart of people and our lives. I was touched and amazed.

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Another quietly profound novel by Elizabeth Strout.

My first audiobook while I healed from an eye operation. I’ve been a devoted reader of Elizabeth Strout novels. How wonderful to hear the “Maine voice” of the narrator. A revelation. I may never “read” another Strout novel, will insist on the joys of hearing it.

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