"Olive, how is Christopher?"

Olive said, "His new baby died. Heartbeat stopped a few days before it was due. Ann had to push it out dead."

"Olive!" Marlene's pretty eyes filled with tears.

"No reason to cry about it," Olive said. (Olive had cried. She had cried like a newborn baby when she hung up the phone from Christopher after he told her.)

Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again (2019)
Penguin Random House UK (2019)