THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNING BOOKERSHORTLISTED AUTHORSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE 2025Stunning deeply felt and profoundly intelligent Guardian Its autumn in Maine and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation defending a lonely isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together Lucy and Bob talk about their lives their hopes and regrets and what might have been.Lucy meanwhile befriends one of Crosbys longest inhabitants Olive Kitteridge now living in a retirement community on the edge of town.