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Anything is Possible

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
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From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Booker long-listed author of My Name is Lucy Barton

Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after seventeen years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind.

Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors.

'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith

'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel

© Elizabeth Strout 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

 Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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Critic reviews

I am deeply impressed. Writing of this quality comes from a commitment to listening, from a perfect attunement to the human condition, from an attention to reality so exact that it goes beyond a skill and becomes a virtue. (Hilary Mantel on 'My Name is Lucy Barton')
So good I got goosebumps... a masterly novel of family ties by one of America's finest writers (Sunday Times on 'My Name is Lucy Barton')
Strout's best novel yet (Ann Patchett on 'My Name is Lucy Barton')
A powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships (Observer on 'My Name is Lucy Barton')
Tender, elegiac, this is the story of a single life that also manages to tell the story of many (Independent on 'My Name is Lucy Barton')
Sympathetic, subtle and sometimes shocking (Emma Healey on 'My Name is Lucy Barton')
This is a glorious novel, deft, tender and true. Read it
Elizabeth Strout's prose is like words doing jazz (Rachel Joyce)
Plain and beautiful...Strout writes with an extraordinary tenderness and restraint (Kate Summerscale on 'My Name is Lucy Barton')
Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge is the best novel I've read for some time (David Nicholls)
All stars
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Each time I think this is my favorite Elizabeth Strout novel by far - then the next one comes along to prove me wrong. This truly was a thing of beauty! It is with a sense of loss that I say goodbye to all these wonderfully human characters. Kimberley Farr is absolutely perfect as narrator.

Can it get any better than this?

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Once again Elizabeth Strout has crafted people in their imperfections and integrated them with life and the gentle eye of acceptance . Credible and uplifting without a trace of soppiness.

Magnificent must read!

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This was the most deeply moving book ivr ever read. The characters are so carefully drawn with so few words. I cried several times. I liked "my name is Lucy Barton" and
this book is so much better.

Sobbing out loud amazing

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A look at multiple tales knitted together skillfully, reflecting many different lives and their loves

A gentle kalaedescopic story

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Not near her best book but still fascinating. Now more frustrating than before I feel the lack of continuity in her interwoven novellike stories. In Lucy Barton it was more fitting to the maincaracters identity. Now I feel it could be a deficiency in the author.

Patchwork

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