Rachel Cusk

Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy-enough daughter and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere....

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface....

A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape....

After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work....

In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London....

Aftermath chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman and creates a new version of family life for her daughters.... 

Outline is the first book in a short and yet epic cycle - a masterful trilogy which will be remembered as one of the most significant achievements of our times....

When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers....

When Stella leaves London for a small village in Sussex, she hopes that the country life will be conducive to her journey toward self-discovery....

Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life....