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 | Olive Kitteridge | Olive is a retired schoolteacher living a quiet life with her husband in a quiet town in Maine, USA. But she has strong opinions and great empathy and she isn't shy of intervening in any situation she feels she can help. Categories: non-speculative, contemporary |
| by Elizabeth Strout | ||
| Score: 8.5 | ||
| Published: 2008 | ||
| Read: June 10th 2022 |
Comments
John said
Fabulous little book, like a set of short stories almost, in fact I now realise some of the chapters were published as magazine stories. Olive sometimes only has a minor role to play, but we follow her and her contemporaries as they cope with growing old. Won the Pulitzer prize.