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Open Book: Elizabeth Strout - My Name Is Lucy Barton

14/02/2016

Elizabeth Strout - My Name Is Lucy Barton

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Elizabeth Strout - My Name Is Lucy Barton

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel.

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout talks to Mariella Frostrup about the inspiration for her new novel My Name Is Lucy Barton and her brief career as a stand-up comic.

Elizabeth Strout's new novel My Name is Lucy Barton is a moving meditation on motherhood, memory and overcoming a difficult past. The writer talks to Mariella Frostrup about her inspiration for the book, and her brief career as a stand-up comic.

Kevin Jackson joins Mariella to review a new graphic novel version of Proust's In Search of Lost Time and the new director of the Cheltenham Literature Festival talks about her ambitions for the event.

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