I’m delighted to share the cover of my forthcoming book, Lucy by the Sea! It was designed by Anna Kochman and Greg Mollica, with art by Jeremy Miranda.
As I told LitHub, I think it’s gorgeous and captures the fear and the exhilaration of all that happens in this book.
Lucy by the Sea will be on sale from Random House on September 20th, 2022. You can preorder it now.
“Exclusive cover reveal: Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy by the Sea,” LitHub, March 22, 2022.It has been a hard pandemic so I'm starting a newsletter.
Every month, readers will receive a newly written personal essay by me. The first newsletter comes out on June 10.
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I’m excited to announce my new book, Oh William!, coming out this fall from Penguin Random House!
Oprah Daily had the story yesterday, revealing the book's lovely cover by Brooklyn-based graphic designer Anna Kochman. I couldn’t be happier with it. Visit Oprah Daily to learn more.
Leigh Haber, “Elizabeth Strout Reveals the Cover for Her New Novel Oh William!: Exclusive,” Oprah Daily, April 6, 2021.I'm happy to let readers know that I have a new book, OLIVE, AGAIN, coming out next fall, October 15, 2019.
Here is the press release from my U.S. publisher, Random House:
Random House is thrilled to announce the return of the beloved Olive Kitteridge in Elizabeth’s Strout’s next novel, OLIVE, AGAIN, which will be published on [October 15], 2019. “It turns out – I just wasn’t done with Olive,” said Strout. “It was like she kept poking me in the ribs, so I finally said, ‘Okay, okay…”
OLIVE, AGAIN will pick up where OLIVE KITTERIDGE left off, following the next decade of Olive’s life – through a second marriage, an evolving relationship with her son, and encounters with a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine.
The character of Olive Kitteridge has achieved an iconic place in the imaginations of millions of readers since the 2008 publication of Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, OLIVE KITTERIDGE. In 2014, it was turned into an acclaimed HBO series, which won 8 Emmys, including Best Actress to Frances McDormand for her performance in the title role.
In the citation for the Pulitzer Prize, the committee noted that the novel “packed a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed, and fascinating.”
Apparently, I was not through with Olive, nor she with me!
NOTE: This post originally gave a publication date of Sept 3. That has been updated to Oct 15.MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON has been included on the longlist for the Baileys Women's Prize for fiction. Thank you to the judges!
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