Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Tue 25 Feb 2025, 1:30 pm - Tue 25 Mar 2025, 3:30 pm
In this year of second terms of office in the US it seems appropriate to revisit, or discover for the first time, the fictional town of Crosby, Maine, presided over by Elizabeth Strout’s crotchety, cantankerous heroine Olive Kitteridge, plain-spoken to a fault and an utter delight! This novel, also a tapestry of short stories, may be read as a sequel to the eponymous original, published in 2009, or on its own as the work of “a superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own” as Hilary Mantel has described Elizabeth Strout. Please join us, let’s see what we make of Olive now?
Event Information
Price: £75.00
Course Weeks: 5
Room: Brunt Room
Campaign: Spring Term 2025
Customer Information: Pen and notepad optional.
Your Tutor
Name: Margaret Norwich
Bio: Margaret Norwich studied liberal arts at Vassar College, New York and read English at Girton College, Cambridge. She has worked in publishing, higher education and the voluntary sector. She lectured on English Language & Literature for many years at Bedford College/De Montfort University and was Tutor/Organiser for the WEA in Bedfordshire. Her interests include the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the novels of Hilary Mantel, the plays of Tom Stoppard, and the redemptive power of art, music and literature.
Department: Humanities
