Oh William! captures the joy and sorrow of watching children grow up and start families of their own of discovering family secrets, late in life, that alter everything we think we know about those closest to us and the way people live and love, against all odds. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. a sublime Chekhovian shock.' Andrew O'Hagan 'A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting, because true and right.' David Hayden Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Tóibìn 'A true gift of a book. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart 'Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.' Sarah Moss 'A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.' Sinéad Gleeson It is 1985, in an Irish town.
Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel 'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022** THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOSTER, ANTARCTICA AND WALK THE BLUE FIELDS 'A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history.
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