CRITICAL – A long-divorced man and woman find themselves alone in a house. A magnificent novel.
Oh how surprising life is! At any age, and even when approaching old age, it can take unexpected turns – even through disastrous situations. This is the experience that Lucy Barton, 65 years old, will have, a heroine that Elizabeth Strout's readers know well since this is the third novel that she devotes to her, after My name is Lucy Barton et Oh William!.
In Lucy facing the seafor the first time, the novelist places her story in a precise historical time: in 2020. The epidemic and confinement allow her to take Lucy out of New York, where she had settled at the age of 25 – taken by her first husband , William. This time William, when they have been divorced for twenty years, takes her to the coast of Maine, a rural environment which reminds Lucy of the one from which she had escaped, because, before becoming a famous novelist, she grew up in a very poor and sad family. Elizabeth Strout therefore offers her heroine a return…
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