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Abide With Me:From thePulitzer Prize-winning authorof Olive Kitteridge

From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge,this is a startlingly beautiful novel about love and abandonment, faith and hypocrisy – and the peril of family secrets.

‘Deeply moving... In one beautiful page after another, Strout captures the mysterious combinations of hope and sorrow.’ The Washington Post

Katherine is only five years old. Struck dumb with grief at her mother's death, it is down to her father, the heartbroken minister Tyler Caskey, to bring his daughter out of silence. But Tyler is barely surviving himself. Since Lauren's death he struggles to find the right words for his sermons – how can he be a leader to his congregation when he himself is lost?

When Katherine's teacher calls to discuss his daughter's anti-social behaviour, it sparks a chain of events that begins to tear down Tyler's defences. The small-town rumour-mill has much to make of Katherine's odd behaviour, and even more to say about Tyler's relationship with his housekeeper. In Tyler's darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his congregation's humanity - and his own will to endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test us all.

Praise for Elizabeth Strout
‘Astonishingly good’ Evening Standard
'So good it gave me goosebumps.’Sunday Times
‘Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force.’ The New Yorker
'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own.' Hilary Mantel
‘Graceful and moving.’ People

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12 April 2013
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‘As perfect a novel as you will ever read . . . So astonishingly good that I shall be reading it once a year for the foreseeable future and very probably for the rest of my life’ ― Evening Standard on Olive Kitteridge

‘Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force’ ― The New Yorker on Olive Kitteridge

‘Masterfully wrought’ ― Vanity Fair on Olive Kitteridge

‘Strout has a wonderful ability to turn a phrase…[these] pages hold what life puts in: experience, joy, grief, and the sometimes-painful journey to love’ ― Observer on Olive Kitteridge

'I am deeply impressed. Writing of this quality comes from a commitment to listening, from a perfect attunement to the human condition, from an attention to reality so exact that it goes beyond a skill and becomes a virtue. I have never read her before and I knew within a few sentences that here was an artist to value and respect' -- Hillary Mantel on My Name is Lucy Barton

'Strout's best novel yet' -- Ann Pachett on My Name is Lucy Barton

'An exquisite novel... in its careful words and vibrating silences, My Name Is Lucy Barton offers us a rare wealth of emotion, from darkest suffering to - 'I was so happy. Oh, I was happy' - simple joy' ― Claire Messud, New York Times Book Review on My Name is Lucy Barton

'So good I got goosebumps... a masterly novel of family ties by one of America's finest writers' ― Sunday Times on My Name is Lucy Barton

'My Name is Lucy Barton confirms Strout as a powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships... Deeply affecting novel...visceral and heartbreaking...If she hadn't already won the Pulitzer for Olive Kitteridge this new novel would surely be a contender' ― Observer on My Name is Lucy Barton

'Hypnotic...yielding a glut of profoundly human truths to do with flight, memory and longing' ― Mail on Sunday on My Name is Lucy Barton

'This is a book you'll want to return to again and again and again' ― Irish Independent on My Name is Lucy Barton

'Slim and spectacular...My Name Is Lucy Barton is smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom. It starts with the clean, solid structure and narrative distance of a fairy tale yet becomes more intimate and improvisational, coming close at times to the rawness of autofiction by writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard and Rachel Cusk. Strout is playing with form here, with ways to get at a story, yet nothing is tentative or haphazard. She is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times....' ― Washington Post on My Name is Lucy Barton

'My Name Is Lucy Barton is a short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters... It evokes these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one' ― Newsday on My Name is Lucy Barton

'Her concise writing is a masterclass in deceptive simplicity...Strout writes with an exacting rhythm, with each word and clause perfectly placed and weighted and each sentence as clear and bracing as grapefruit. It's a small masterpiece' ― Daily Mail on My Name is Lucy Barton

'This short, simple, quiet novel wriggles its way right into your heart and stays there' ― Red on My Name is Lucy Barton

'A beautifully taut novel' ― Guardian on My Name is Lucy Barton

'Agleam with extraordinary psychological insights...delicate, tender but ruthless reveries' ― Sunday Express on My Name is Lucy Barton

'An eerie, compelling novel, its deceptively simple language is a 'slight rush of words' which hold much more than they seem capable of containing...This novel is about the need to create a story we can live with when the real story cannot be told...' ― Financial Times on My Name is Lucy Barton

'Strout uses a different voice herself in this novel: a spare simple one, elegiac in tone that sometimes brings to mind Joan Didion's' ― The Tablet on My Name is Lucy Barton

'An exquisitely written story...a brutally honest, absorbing and emotive read' ― Catholic Universe on My Name is Lucy Barton

'This is a glorious novel, deft, tender and true. Read it' ― Sunday Telegraph on My Name is Lucy Barton

'Honest, intimate and ultimately unforgettable' ― Stylist on My Name is Lucy Barton

'Strout's prose propels the story forward with moments of startlingly poetic clarity.' ― The New Yorker on The Burgess Boys

'One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.' ― The New York Times Book Review on Amy & Isabelle

'A novel of shining integrity and humour' -- Alice Munro on Amy and Isabelle --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

Elizabeth Strout's tenure as a lawyer (six months) was slightly longer than her career as a stand-up comedian (one night). She has also worked as a bartender, waitress and piano player at bars across the USA. She now teaches literature in New York, where she lives with her husband and daughter. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B73MU6G
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster UK; UK ed. edition (12 April 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 616 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 302 pages

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Elizabeth Strout is the author of the New York Times bestseller Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; the national bestseller Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine and New York City.

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James

Love Elizabeth Strout but not this one...

Reviewed in Australia on 26 October 2021

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The relationship between the main character Tyler and his troublesome daughter was most promising but not enough to keep me engaged beyond the first quarter of this more stodgy attempt by Strout. Her first book had me rivetted from this point unable to put it down whereas Abide was permanently put down I'm afraid.
However, based on her first book I am still a fan just not of Abide.

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Another wonderful read from Elizabeth Strout.

Reviewed in Australia on 24 March 2020

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I loved this gentle tale of a grieving widowed minister and his young daughter. While Katherine struggles with school, kinderkirk, and peers and adults, her father, Tyler, struggles with life in a small town, a narrow-minded, gossipy congregation, and an interfering mother. A fictional but fascinating glimpse into their world and their lives.

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Very profound

Reviewed in Australia on 9 February 2021

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Elizabeth Strout is a very good writer. This is a wonderful book set in a small New England town about a minister struggling with grief. Full of insight.

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Kate Parrick

magic abides

Reviewed in Australia on 23 March 2022

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The work by Elizabeth Strout is all beautiful, but Tyler Caskey is a character for the ages, who'll stay with me forever. What a beautiful achievement is this novel.

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elizabeth

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 12 July 2016

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A beautiful book. Moving and filled with insights into people

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Loved the story and the psycology

Reviewed in Australia on 29 July 2016

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Well researched. Absolutely recmmendable. Loved the story and the psycology.

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Linda

Beautifully written

Reviewed in Australia on 11 March 2020

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'Abide with Me' is a simple story about average people but written so beautifully that each character is alive and vibrant in their own right. Elizabeth Strout is an extraordinary writer making ordinary lives and occurrences deep and resonating. All her books are a joy.

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M. Dowden

Welcome to West Annett

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2020

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Here Elizabeth Strout takes us back to the Fifties, with most of this novel taking place in 1959, in a small New England town called West Annett. Here we are introduced to Tyler Caskey, who is the new minister, and as this opens he has lost his wife and has his eldest daughter living with him, and then some distance away his youngest daughter is living with his mother, as she is only a baby as such. We of course follow back in time to see what the marriage was like, and how Tyler first came to the church that he is now ministering to.

This then is a tale of small-town living, the evils of gossip and a man put into a difficult situation. As we all know gossip can be malicious and distort the truth as it grows in the hands of a number of people, and so this part of the story reads as authentic. A man such as the pastor here being placed in a difficult situation is something that can happen to people, so there is no problem as such with this, or the fact that the daughter he has with him is obviously troubled by events, such as still being in mourning, and missing her little sister. We read of a handful of his parishioners, who also have problems of their own, which we all do, and once again this is what you would expect.

Although well written this novel does let itself down somewhat as we only have a piece of the small town as such being shown to us, thus giving an even more isolated feel, and there is a bit too much preaching at times, as if this wants to be a biblical tale, which it isn’t. The ending also grates, as those who are responsible for the rumours and so on all seem to realise how bad they have been, and seek to change their ways, which thus makes this starting to verge towards the farcical. I have been there, with malicious gossip about myself, and to be perfectly blunt those responsible probably could not give a toss, as some have gained by it both financially and with promotions. So, this loses its way by trying to become a bit too folksy and charming, and then by the end wanting to be jolly and uplifting. Life is not like that, and so this all starts to slowly ungather as you carry on reading it, making it okay as such things go, but not offering the depth and realism that Strout can produce.

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HLeuschel

A gem of a book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2020

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This is a masterpiece for me!
The characters, especially the main one, a grieving minister, father and widower, were so real and bristling with life that I was constantly drawn back to the book wanting to know, empathize, root for the man and his two very young daughters. The narrative had many different sub-plots, taking the reader into the past to understand the characters' backgrounds, into the different lives of the people who were talking behind the minister's back and those who were not involved in the spinning of assumptions, the minister's five year old daughter and her grief and deep confusion about how to deal with the loss, the lives also of those who appreciated his kindness and unbreakable endurance skills.
It's a book I can only marvel about, urge others to read and experience for themselves and that I definitely plan to read again in the future!

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Mrs. J. E. Gorman

She is one of the best writers I have had the pleasure of reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2018

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A powerful piece of writing. The Elizabeth Strout books that I have read are awe inspiring. She is one of the best writers I have had the pleasure of reading. For me, she ranks with Greene and Maugham. I purchased this book from USA in order to read it. It is a superb work and the very best example of story telling. The characters are totally believable and memorable.

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Dragon

Thoughtful novel about faith, loss and compassion

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2017

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A compellingly sad story about a minister and his flock in a rural US community. He's lost his wife and we follow him through a year of struggling with that loss and the sadness of the flawed marriage that went before. Events in real-time (his daughter malfunctioning badly at school, his housekeeper's troubled personal life) aren't happy either. I hit a point around 2/3 the way through where I thought I was sliding down a slippery slope to misery, reading this, but I recommend you persevere. Events turn in interesting directions, and the end is worth sticking out for.

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Not for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 November 2021

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I was intrigued by the back story: a bereaved family, man losing his young wife, a young child losing her mum. Some similarities to by husbands situation when his first wife died and left 3 kids one of whom ideas 6.
The “plot” for what it was worth was very thin and the non-biblical “biblical quotes” were so unnecessary. One or two maybe but not to the point of exhaustion.
I felt there was far too much unnecessary add ins that left me cold and all of which I skipped over. And who is that B dude - I skipped over all of that.
And then there was Charlie with that woman in Boston and the ridiculous gratuitous sex references to threesomes and the size of his genitals. Seriously! Why didn’t we get a look into more of the characters’ lives?
The story could be told in about half the words or even less. I finished the book only to find out what happened to Kitty Kat.
First and last from this author. This book definitely did not do it for me.

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