Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

from Brendan O'Connor · host RTÉ Radio 1

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Elizabeth Strout, joined Brendan to talk about contemporary life in the US, loneliness within marriages, and her latest novel, The Things we Never Say. She was in Ireland for an appearance at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas.

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