My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Beautifully written, elegant and melancholy story. It's almost a short story rather than a novel.

I can't say it any better than the Claire Messud in her NYTimes Book Review:  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/books/review/elizabeth-strouts-my-name-is-lucy-barton.html?_r=0