The Things We Never Say

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 AND AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BARACK OBAMA 2026 SUMMER READING LIST PICKThe stunning new novel about love, loneliness and new beginnings from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout.'Strout is brilliant at uncovering what goes on beneath the surface of ordinary life' THE TIMES'Emotionally stunning, devastatingly wise . . . her best novel yet' RACHEL JOYCE''Elizabeth Strout writes extraordinary fiction about ordinary people' TELEGRAPH'A moving, tender and wise novel . . . This might be Elizabeth Strout's best yet' CLARE CHAMBERS'A devastating look at the dangerous cracks in family life and in the contemporary world at large. Strout's prose is brilliantly understated and all the more powerful for that' BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES 2026Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word...