Claire Lowdon

Less radical, less rich: Elizabeth Strout’s Olive, Again is a disappointment

Strout’s winning formula in Olive Kitteridge — describing mundane life punctuated by a startling event — is beginning to wear dangerously thin

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  • Olive, Again

    Elizabeth Strout

    Viking, pp. 289, £14

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