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Abide With Me

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Abide With Me

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly).

“Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family’s tragedy. Tyler’s usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tyler’s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parish’s humanity—and his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological
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I return to this and other Strout novels because it is a deeply soothing, satisfying and heartening experience.
This story of a pivotal time in a young Reverend’s life, his relationship to the community and God, is a tender study in human vulnerability and like all of Strout’s prolific work, it leaves you feeling accompanied in the struggles and quiet joys of life.

A journey of the soul

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As usual Elizabeth Strout writes about the human condition with pathos compassion and incisive observations . The narrator was superb and made this story come alive with perfect and timely emphasis . I’ve now read all of ES’s books and have learned so much from each of them . She is a writer already in the halls of literary masterpieces .

Acute characterisation and pitch perfect narration

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