Jake Williams

So it's 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's also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton.

Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been.

Ringing a bell now.

I really enjoyed it.

Yeah.

I have not read anything like it.

It's very vividly small town America.

She says, having never been to small town America, but I feel like I have now.

I really loved this idea that they set out right at the beginning that Bob doesn't know the impact he has on other people's lives.

He doesn't know how much he's loved.

He doesn't know how much of a difference he's made.

That's very, it's a wonderful life as well.

And there isn't this like big push to show Bob

difference he makes but it felt like the narrator was the person gifting us to see like what an amazing guy he was even though he's also a very normal ordinary guy and that's kind of beautiful in its own way this was highlighted as a book that could be read as a standalone yeah because i think some of her other books are like so she has my name is lucy barton

there's a few there's a couple of Lucy by the Sea and then there's a few Olive Kitteridge ones that are very like in a series and this one isn't that but it does still have all those same characters in it and I did feel a bit like

And I knew of the titles of those books.

So when Olive arrives on the scene, I was like, I feel like I should know something about you as a character.

And then Lucy, I felt like I should know.