Meghan’s Reviews > Lucy by the Sea > Status Update

Oh. Hahaha, I just figured out that Lucy Barton was introduced to readers long before this book. That speaks to my earlier comments quite a bit.

I have mixed feelings about this narrator (which is making me re-examine my own attitude about the pandemic), but the made-up “mother who is always nice to me” is a real heart-wrencher.

There is so much life lived and story told in the first two pages of the book, it’s just wild. I feel like the pacing slows down within a page after that, a function of the pandemic grinding things to a halt, but I want to remember that juxtaposition. This is a Lucky Day read… I’ve got others on my plate so I really shouldn’t have, but I’m hoping I can git ‘er done.