Elizabeth Strout

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888 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Sep 2019 last heard 12 Jun

Elizabeth Strout’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Hello.

It's lovely to be here.

I'm very, very happy to be here.

So thank you.

Well, that's sort of hard without giving the spoilers away and I'm not going to.

So anyway, it's about a 57 year old.

History, high school teacher, and from all outward appearances, his life is perfectly fine.

And yet, at the beginning of the book, he's feeling distressed.

And then as I was writing it, I sort of figured out why.

And then there's a big reveal that he has to go through, and it's a little bit life-altering.

It's about his interior life as an ordinary man doing his job.

It's very much about what's going on inside him that many people can't see, but it's also about his time in history.

He is a history teacher, and history is about to knock on his door and give him a knock.

Exactly.

And can I just say, I really, I love ordinary people.

I think I've never met a so-called ordinary person that I haven't found extraordinary.

Because we're just all trying to do our thing and get by.

And I think it's, I'm always amazed at what people privately go through.

And so I just want to say that about so-called ordinary people.

Precisely.

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