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Open Book: Love, relationships, and road trips with Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout

Love, relationships, and road trips with Elizabeth Strout

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Love, relationships, and road trips with Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout talks to Elizabeth Day about her new novel, Oh William!

Elizabeth Strout discusses her new novel, Oh William! which revisits the characters of her Lucy Barton series.

The creator of Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, on her new novel Oh William! It's narrated by her character Lucy Barton, who re-assesses her relationship with her first husband -  William - as they take a road trip together. Elizabeth Strout talks  to Elizabeth Day about revisiting her characters,  writing about memory and whether Olive Kitteridge will ever re-appear in her fiction.
Also, Professor Angus Fletcher explains his theories of Story Science; and Andrew Martin and Helen Oyeyemi discuss trains in fiction.

Book List – Sunday 28 November and Thursday 2 December

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout 
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Richard III by William Shakespeare 
Wonder Works by Professor Angus Fletcher
The Iliad by Homer
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
Smoke by Andrew Martin 
The Signalman by Charles Dickens
Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens
Barbox Brothers by Charles Dickens
Dombey and Sons by Charles Dickens
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
Anna Karenina  by Leo Tolstoy
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 
The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton 
The Adventure of Silver Blaze by A Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle 
Adelstrop by Edward Thomas 
Cuckoo Valley Railway by Arthur Quiller-Couch 
The Trail of the Serpent by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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