![]() ![]() ‘ confirms that one of the most fascinating projects in contemporary fiction is unfolding in Rachel Cusk’s trilogy.’ Adam FouldsĪ Faber Members Edition of the complete Outline trilogy is also available. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.įiltered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change. Rachel Cusk is the author of Outline, Transit, the memoirs A Life’s Work, The Last Supper, and Aftermath, and several other novels: Saving Agnes, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award The Temporary The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award The Lucky Ones In the Fold Arlington Park and The Bradshaw Variations. ![]() The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions – personal, moral, artistic, and practical – as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. ‘A work of cut-glass brilliance.’ Financial Times ‘Tremendous from its opening sentence.’ Tessa Hadley, Guardian ‘A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality.’ Monica Ali, New York Times A Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator and Observer Book of the Year. ![]()
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