Waterstones at St Giles-in-the-Fields welcomes Pulitzer prize-winning, no.1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout to celebrate the publication of Lucy by the Sea. The unforgettable protagonist of My Name is Lucy Barton and Oh William! finds herself reluctantly agreeing to spend lockdown with her ex-husband in a house by the sea in Strout’s masterful, pin-sharp yet comforting meditation on relationships, isolation and change.

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge as well as My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible, Oh William!, Amy and Isabelle, Abide With Me, The Burgess Boys and Olive, Again. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. Strout’s previous novel, Oh William!, is shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. She lives in Maine.

David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Sweet Sorrow, Us, The Understudy and Starter for Ten. One Day was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim. David was named Author of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards after his fourth novel, Us, was another no. 1 bestseller and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. On screen, David has written many adaptations including Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was nominated for an Emmy and won him a BAFTA for best writer.

For tickets and more information, please see: Elizabeth Strout in conversation with David Nicholls at St Giles-in-the-Fields