Rachel Cusk

The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious, comic, and catastrophic. To become a mother is to become the chief actor in a drama of human...

A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language. A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking - about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed...

National Bestseller A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Named a Best Book of the...

A masterly work of divorce and its consequences, Aftermath is a ruthless, rigorous record of the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos of separation. In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk’s marriage of 10 years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the...

A vivid and elegant account of a family’s season abroad by one of our finest contemporary authors. Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the...

A funny, satirical tale of English mothers on the brink of rebellion, Arlington Park is a novel for the ages. Set over the course of one rainy day in an ordinary English suburb, Arlington Park is a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each...

From Rachel Cusk, her first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing...

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2018 Amazon Editors' Top 100 of 2018 Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where...

The acclaimed winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, by the author of The Country Life Chronically confused, terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic, Agnes Day lives with her two best friends in the London suburbs and works at an obscure trade magazine. Life and love seem to go on...

Faye ist unterwegs, um ihren neuen Roman vorzustellen. Sie hofft auf öffentliche Anerkennung und Abstand zu einer privaten Katastrophe.

In un'estate greca calda e bruciante, una scrittrice inglese arriva ad Atene per tenere un seminario.

This program is read by actor Genevieve Gaunt, who has appeared in Doctor Who, The Royals, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. From Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, comes this startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do...

M ist Schauspielerin, eine globale Ikone und existiert längst öffentlich in unendlich vielen Bildern – in Rollen, Szenen, den Erinnerungen anderer. Das eigene Leben hingegen bleibt ihr die fremdeste Rolle.

Rachel Cusk hat ein zutiefst persönliches und hochpolitisches Buch geschrieben – einen skandalträchtigen Bericht über die gewaltigen Folgen und Nebenwirkungen ihrer eigenen Trennung.

Von der Autorin der Outline-Trilogie: Ein meisterhafter Sommerroman über weibliches Schicksal und männliches Privileg

The seventh novel by the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, Rachel Cusk’s The Bradshaw Variations is a lyrical, subversive tale of a marriage unraveling. Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy...

I 2009 gennemgår Rachel Cusk en skilsmisse, og i efterdønningerne står en kvinde med sine to døtre. Hun er ramt, rasende og sårbar, og...

A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy. A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the...

Una donna in viaggio ascolta un estraneo seduto di fianco a lei mentre parla del suo lavoro, della famiglia e dell'angosciosa notte precedente, trascorsa a seppellire il cane. Faye, scrittrice e io narrante, sta raggiungendo il continente europeo per partecipare a un convegno.

Outline erzählt von Liebe, Verlust, Erinnerung und dem elementaren Drang, Geschichten zu erzählen. Eine Schriftstellerin reist im Hochsommer nach Athen, um dort einen Schreibkurs zu geben. Während ihre eigenen Verhältnisse vorerst im Dunkeln bleiben, wird sie zur Zuhörerin einer Reihe von Lebensgeschichten.