Elizabeth Strout was compared to John Cheever, Steinbeck and Ray Bradbury, called “Richard Yates in a skirt” and even “American Chekhov”; she has been published in The New Yorker and Oprah Winfrey's O: The Oprah Magazine, has consistently appeared on bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic and was a finalist for the prestigious PEN/Faulkner and Orange Prize literary awards, and her novel Olivia Kitteridge was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Excellent language, colorful characters, and unrelenting psychological tension ensured her books deserved success; The novel “Abide with Me” was no exception. So, Reverend Tyler Caskey serves the Lord in the town of West Annette. The parishioners dote on him, because he sincerely believes that they are all children of God. But then a tragedy occurs in Tyler's family - his young wife dies, and he is unable to cope with grief. Meanwhile, the youngest daughter goes to live with her grandmother, the kindergarten teachers complain about the eldest almost every day, and Tyler’s housekeeper is behaving somehow suspiciously...