Ostensibly it is a novel about a mother/daughter relationship and the nature of family. That is the frame for the story, and the starting point for Lucy to recount various other scenes in her life that are relevant and or in some way related to this time or this visit from her mother. They talked mostly about people they used to know, gossiping and laughing. Her mother, who she had not seen for years, came to visit her and stayed for five days. Our narrator Lucy is looking back at her life and recounts the time she spent in hospital in the mid 1980s. My fiance’s mother gave me her copy to read, and I had high hopes. Almost every review I have read (both in newspapers/magazines and online) has been favourable, mentioning the beauty of the writing and the emotional depth of the story. My Name is Lucy Barton has been included on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize 2016, and so understandably it’s quite popular at the moment generating a bit of hype.
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