06 Nov Timeless Trilogy

In an interview a few years ago, Marilynne Robinson described how once she’d finished writing a novel, she missed the characters: “I feel sort of bereaved”. That’s why she keeps returning to them. We first met her elderly, “silvery” preacher, John Ames, in Gilead (2004), and then again in (2008), which told the story of Jack, the wayward son of Ames’s closest friend. Now – to great acclaim – we’re back in Robinson’s quiet midwest once more to hear the tale of Lila, Ames’s new, much younger wife. The new book is both gentle and graceful. And taken together, with Lila as the culmination, these books will surely be read and known in time as one of the great achievements of contemporary literature. Find them on our shelves!