Elizabeth Strout brings Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge together in a new novel of confidences
In "Racontez-moi tout," the American novelist pairs her two best-known heroines around the quiet pleasure of being truly listened to, according to Le Monde.
Elizabeth Strout's new novel, published in French as "Racontez-moi tout," brings together the two characters most readers associate with her: Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge. According to Le Monde, the book stages a meeting between them, one marked by a mutual taste for confiding and listening.
Le Monde describes the novel's focus as the happiness that can come from genuine conversation — exchanges defined by real attention to "gens et à la vie qu'ils mènent" (people and the lives they lead). Both Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge have anchored their own book series since Strout introduced them, Olive in "Olive Kitteridge" and Lucy across several subsequent novels; here the two fictional lineages converge.
No further details on plot, length or French publisher are given in the source material.
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