“I see them as a continuation of each other.” The two novels “work together”, she says. I thought: OK, let’s have him take her up to the coast of Maine, and stick them on this cliff and see what happens,” Strout says from her house in Brunswick, Maine, which she and her husband have made their permanent home since lockdown. “Lucy and William were just so much in my head. Now, barely a year later, we have Lucy by the Sea, another in the series, which follows Lucy and her former husband William as they flee New York for a damp house in New England, to sit out the pandemic. E lizabeth Strout had just finished writing her Booker-shortlisted novel Oh William!, revisiting her much loved character Lucy Barton, when the pandemic struck.
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