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My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout, read by Kimberly Farr.

A mother comes to visit her daughter in hospital after having not seen her in many years. Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront her past, uncovering long-buried memories of a profoundly impoverished childhood, and her present, as the façade of her new life in New York begins to crumble, awakening her to the reality of her faltering marriage and her unsteady journey towards becoming a writer.

From Lucy's hospital bed, we are drawn ever more deeply into the emotional complexity of family life, the inescapable power of the past and the memories - however painful - that bind a family together.

©2016 Elizabeth Strout (P)2016 Penguin Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Heartfelt Inspiring Thought-Provoking

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and Elizabeth Strout tells her story so gently yet powerfully: complex, insightful and painfully loving. It amazes me.

'All life amazes me,' says Lucy Barton. <br />

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Interesting seeing inside someone's head. Ordinary yet individual - everyone's map of the world is so different.

story of a life?

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Wish I’d read all the reviews first. I really don’t understand the praise heaped on this book. It started well enough but then the story seems to have been curtailed into short summaries and I had to check whether I had an abridged version by mistake.
I found the narrator rather annoying.

Disappointing

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You have to be in the mood for this. The unusual narrative style in which the narrator constantly qualifies what she says in an attempt to report honestly and accurately can become rather wearing. It is also not particularly cheering. But it’s compelling, (although it wonders off a bit in the middle) and insightful and sad. The ending felt a bit abrupt.

Not exactly enjoyable but …

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It's rare that I feel such empathy for a fictional character but here I really do. It is tender, a little disturbing in places, and has such humanity in Lucy's memories and observations. I have known some of the brokenness she has and say to people who are confused or unconvinced by the mother-daughter relationship, that you should listen again and hear the complex layers of love, rejection, hurting, forgiveness, need and acceptance of what is and what has been. I love its flowing narrative; its honesty and believability. Lucy is a flawed human as we all are but there is a gentle beauty in her story.

Absorbing. I felt I really knew her

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