A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a
mark on the world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize shortlisted author of My Name
is Lucy Barton
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. Together, they spend afternoons 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."
