Oh William!: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

Lucy Barton travels with her first husband on a trip that keeps turning up things neither of them had examined. Elizabeth Strout writes in close, unadorned sentences, letting a marriage that ended decades earlier reveal itself through small observations and remembered scenes. Family history surfaces gradually, and the novel takes more interest in how people revise their understanding of each other than in dramatic incident. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. At its core: • A further novel following the character Lucy Barton • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize • Quiet, character-led storytelling with little plot machinery • Themes of memory, forgiveness and long marriages Ideal for book clubs and readers of literary fiction who prefer interior novels to incident-driven ones, this paperback is available through Boipoka.