Mia Levitin

Isolating with the ex: Lucy by the Sea, by Elizabeth Strout, reviewed

Lucy Barton retreats to Maine with her divorced husband for the pandemic, and is haunted by the fear that she may ‘never write another word again’

A seaside house in Maine. [Alamy]

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