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Talking Books: Hay Festival 2017

Elizabeth Strout

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS North America

The Pulitzer prize-winning author of 'Olive Kitteridge' Elizabeth Strout is in conversation with George Alagiah at Hay Festival. Her new title 'Anything is Possible' takes the form of linked short stories which tell the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after 17 years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind. Elizabeth Strout is noted for the profound wisdom she brings to her nuanced depictions of human relationships. Show less

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