This funny novel begins as follows:
"I would like to say a few words about my first husband."
It looks like the narrator is talking to someone - a judge, a confessor, a friend, her reader?
Indeed, the story that follows does not have the fixity of a written text, it is in an unstable balance, allusive, interrogative, dazzling, riddled with silences, open, like life and like the characters both ordinary and enigmatic by Elizabeth Strout, so alive, so endearing.
The American novelist, born in 1956 in Maine, gained international fame thanks to the character of Olive Kitteridge, then created a sort of fictional alter ego, Lucy Barton, to whom she has already devoted two novels and that we find at the helm of the narration in
Oh William!
William, therefore, the first husband of Lucy Barton.
She left him when their daughters were 18, we should rather say that she tore herself away from him, but that, we will find out later.
Then, each having married again on his side, they...
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