![]() 'Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force.' The New Yorker 'So good it gave me goosebumps.' Sunday Times Jim, a successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, something that Bob, a legal aid attorney who idolises Jim, has always taken in his stride.īut when their sister desperately calls them back home to Shirley Falls to help her teenage son out of trouble, long-buried tensions begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown for New York as soon as they could. ![]() ![]() Elizabeth Strout has written a novel that makes you feel: this is what it's like to be alive.' Sunday Times 'This is as much a state-of-the-nation novel as one of small-town life. Exploring the ties that bind us to family and home, this novel will resonate with readers long after they turn the final page. The Burgess Boys: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive KitteridgeĪ stunning story about the tragedies and triumphs of two brothers, from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge. ![]()
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