Tell Me Everything by E. Strout

Tell Me Everything by E. Strout (2024). It’s autumn in Maine. Bob the town lawyer has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, and he has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. 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, Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.” (338 pgs)