![]() Recently, Strout has become more open about revisiting characters as they age. In previous works the links were hard to spot: a walk-on character might turn out to be the granddaughter of an earlier protagonist a whisper of off-stage abuse in one novel became the narrative focus of another. For years, Strout has been building connections between her books. With Olive, Again, she has returned to her earlier protagonist. It was that rare kind of book that can reasonably be called a masterpiece, and it won its author the Pulitzer prize. With 2008’s Olive Kitteridge she moved from novels to a trickier form: the cycle of interconnected stories. ![]() Her second, Abide With Me, went one better. Olive, Again, Elizabeth Strout, Viking, 2019, 304pp, £14.99 (hardback)Įlizabeth’s Strout’s bestselling debut, Amy and Isabelle, announced the arrival of a serious talent. ![]()
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